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The Proverbial Bernard Shaw: An Index to Proverbs in the ...
(093, p. 38, 1922) THE COUNTESS: . . . they were as dull as ditchwater. (115, p.
677, 1932) SHE: But I must say it's as dull as ditchwater. (132, p. 653, 1938)
ODEP, 208; EAP, 111; MP, 171. DIVIDE: 1. The singleminded 'divide and govern.'
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George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder,
1994
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
As dull as ditchwater (ODEP 208; EAP 111; MP 171) 1844 The people are "as
dull as ditchwater." (p. 17) Maxwell, W. H. Sports and Adventures in the
Highlands and Islands of Scotland. London: Routledge, 1844. 1982 I was awful
in the part, ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder,
2005
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Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of ...
... Bridge, that great berm of mud-brown housing - public projects and private
apartments - that Robert Moses bulldozered into being from 23 rd Street to the
Brooklyn Bridge, has always struck me as being quite as dull as ditchwater.
Looking ...
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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
Vijaya Kumar. DULL as dull as ditchwater very boring Her short stories are as
dull as ditchwater. DUMPS down in the dumps depressed; feeling gloomy After
failing in the subject, she is down in the dumps. DURATION for the duration for a
...
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English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases Collected from the ...
The kex is the dried stalk of the hemlock, of wild cicely (R.) and one or two other
plants of the same genus. See Miss Baker's Northampt. Gloss, art. Kex, and
Cooper's Sussex Vocab., 1853, p. 56. As dull as a Dutchman, cl. As dull as
ditchwater.
William Carew Hazlitt,
1907
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
... but he kept his distance. ditchwater as dull as ditchwater very boring or
uninteresting: The lecture was as dull as ditchwater. do I etc could do with/could
be doing with (something) it would be better if I had or did (something): / could do
with a ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz,
1993
Nevertheless we repeat, if only for the sake of the delightful alliterative euphony
of the phrase, that some people are in fact content to be as dull as ditchwater.
This, you may say, is unfair, since these persons neither made themselves dull
nor ...
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The Bristol Medico-chirurgical Journal
Unlike Bath, even in the days of its prosperity Clifton was as dull as ditchwater,
very nearly as dull as its modern representative, if dulness of so impenetrable a
character can ever hope to be equalled. With beauties of situation and scenery ...
dull dull as ditchwater S'ttt'JSiii* (The professor's lecture was as dull as ditchwater
\ * to dull the edge of ffi^Htfilffc ; mftXMMim ; f&Z&M (This medicine may dull the
edge oj pain. 5jtff H a] dumb to dumb down MI) ; tt£ to strike dumb ML STRIKE ...
... but he kept his distance. ditch water as dull as ditchwater very boring or
uninteresting: The lecture was as dull as ditchwater. do I etc could do with/could
be doing with (something) it would be better if I had or did (something): / could do
with a ...
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One mile down, and a lifetime of swimming to go
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Centrica cuts dividend; who's next?
Utility companies such as Centrica are widely regarded as dull as ditchwater but also safe as houses, and so a dividend cut comes as a nasty ... «Proactive Investors UK, Feb 15»