dry as dust

*dry as dust

and *dry as a bone

1. Cliché very dry. (*Also: as ~.) The bread is as dry as dust. When the leaves are dry as a bone, they break into powder easily.

2. Cliché very dull; very boring. (*Also: as ~.) This book is as dry as dust. I am going to stop reading it. Her lecture was dry as dust—just like her subject.

dry as dust

Dull, boring, as in This text is dry as dust; it's putting me to sleep. [c. 1500]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Patty	['pæti]
Nikau	-	Maori
Stafford	STAF-ərd	English
Roghayeh	-	Persian
Euphemia	yoo-FEM-ee-ə (English)	Ancient Greek, English (Archaic)
Archelaus	ahr-kee-LAY-əs (English)	Ancient Greek (Latinized), Biblical Latin, Biblical