Usually means: Extremely dull, boring, and uninteresting.
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  1. dry as dust: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. dry-as-dust, dry-as-dust: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dry-as-dust: Wordnik
  4. dry-as-dust: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. dry-as-dust, dry as dust: Dictionary.com
  6. dry-as-dust, dry as dust: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. dry as dust: Wiktionary

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  1. dry as dust: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dry as dust: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dry as dust: Medical dictionary

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  1. dry as dust: Idioms

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adjective:  (simile) Very dull or boring.

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