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Dry as dust means A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer..
[…] how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know?
[…] Casaubon, the dryasdust scholar in Middlemarch, is said to woo his bride with a “frigid rhetoric . . . as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of an amorous rook.”
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Dry as dust means A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer..
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[…] how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know?
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