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Dull as dishwater

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Boring; ordinary; exceedingly dull. not-comparable

    "‘My blessed Public must have a pretty girl’s face. Romance isn’t romance, adventure is as dull as dishwater...to my Public...unless, every so often, a face to sink a thousand ships, or is it saps? shows up.’"

Etymology

Modified from dull as ditchwater (1700s) in the first half of the 1900s, perhaps through mispronunciation.

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