bore stiff

bore someone stiff

and bore someone to death; bore someone to tears

Fig. to be exceedingly dull and uninteresting. (Stiff means "dead.") The play bored me stiff. The lecture bored everyone to death.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Eve	[i:v]
Chedomir	-	Macedonian, Medieval Slavic
Thanasis	-	Greek
Alva	['ælvə]
Vikrama	-	Hinduism
Varnava	-	Russian, Old Church Slavic