词汇 | boredom |
释义 | IDIOMSLANG BOREDOM (as) dry as dust very dull; very boring.This book is as dry as dust. I am going to stop reading it.Her lecture was dry as dust—just like her subject. (as) dull as dishwater and (as) dull as ditchwater very uninteresting.I'm not surprised that he can't find a partner. He's as dull as dishwater.Mr. Black's speech was as dull as ditchwater. bored stiff and bored to death very bored.We were all bored stiff.I've never been so bored to death in my life. bore someone stiff and bore someone to death to bore someone very much. (Stiff is an old slang word meaning "dead.")The play bored me stiff.The lecture bored everyone to death. cut-and-dried fixed; determined beforehand; usual and uninteresting.(Fixed order.)I find your writing quite boring. It's too cut-and-dried.The lecture was, as usual, cut-and-dried. It was the same thing we've heard for years. die of boredom to suffer from boredom; to be very bored.No one has ever really died of boredom.We sat there and listened politely, even though we almost died of boredom. fed up (to some place) (with someone or something) bored with someone or something. (Informal. The some place can be here, the teeth, the gills, or other places.)I'm fed up with this dull lecture.I'm fed up to here with dull television programs. nothing to write home about nothing exciting or interesting. (Folksy.)I've been busy, but nothing to write home about.I had a dull week—nothing to write home about. put someone to sleep to bore someone.That dull lecture put me to sleep.Her long story almost put me to sleep. talk someone's head off [for someone] to speak too much. (Slang.)Why does John always talk his head off? Doesn't he know he bores people?She talks her head off and doesn't seem to know what she's saying. be out of (one's) mind with (something)To feel something strongly, often boredom. I was out of my mind with boredom during that lecture this afternoon. die of boredomTo die because one is so bored. Used figuratively and hyperbolically. If that staff meeting hadn't ended when it did, I would have died of boredom! die of boredomFig. to be very bored. No one has ever really died of boredom. We sat there and listened politely, even though we almost died of boredom. |
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