dull as dishwater

枯燥如洗黯淡无光枯燥无味

dull as dishwater 的定义

  1. Boring, tedious, as in That lecture was dull as dishwater. The original simile, dull as ditchwater, dating from the 1700s, alluded to the muddy water in roadside ditches. In the first half of the 1900s, perhaps through mispronunciation, it became dishwater, that is, the dingy, grayish water in which dirty dishes had soaked.

dull as dishwater 近义词

dull as dishwater

等同于 monotonous

dull as dishwater

等同于 banal

dull as dishwater

等同于 tedious

dull as dishwater

等同于 unimaginative

dull as dishwater

等同于 bland

dull as dishwater

等同于 drab

dull as dishwater

等同于 dry

更多dull as dishwater例句

  1. Over the years, Crawford has been largely silent, speaking out only for an as-told-to obituary to Houston published in Esquire.
  2. But the man appears so weary that I decide to skip the dull stuff and get to the heat.
  3. The work at Art Basel is often interesting, often dull, and disproportionately decorative in nature.
  4. His course managed to be both dreadfully dull and appallingly difficult, with few light moments.
  5. I was quoted in The New York Times saying, ‘We dared to be dull’.
  6. The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.
  7. Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.
  8. It'll be beastly dull for her at The Warren, you see, poor girl; and she doesn't seem to jump at Spunyarn, though he does hang on.
  9. They are grayish or colorless, and have a dull waxy look, as if cut from paraffin (Figs. 43 and 61).
  10. There was a distant, dull boom in the air—a repeated heavy thud.