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dry-as-dust

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dry·as·dust or dry-as-dust  (drz-dst)
n.
A dull, pedantic speaker or writer.

[After Dr. Jonas Dryasdust, a fictitious character to whom Sir Walter Scott dedicated some of his novels.]

dryas·dust adj.
Translations
dry-as-dust [ˈdraɪəzˈdʌst] ADJterriblemente árido


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For if we take his whole works, at times we plow through pages of dry-as-dust argument where there is never a glimmer of that beauty which makes poetry a joy, till we grow weary of it.
He had understood nothing, and the only idea he had gathered was that evolution was a dry-as-dust theory, of a lot of little men possessed of huge and unintelligible vocabularies.
Love proceeds not out of the dry-as-dust way of the mind.
 
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