bored stiff

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The comedy double act told how they were "bored stiff" by Monty Python in an old university TV station interview, in a two-minute clip unearthed in 2021.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2022

Toward the end of the 1960s, Luke Rhinehart worked as a psychoanalyst in New York and was bored stiff.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2019

But the element of surprise can also be satisfying: “I got bored stiff with what I was doing in regular pottery class,” Mr. Brown said.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2013

But all producers of animated films are facing the same inexorable fact: Grown-ups pay the tickets and the DVDs, and they don't want to be bored stiff or drowned in saccharine.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2011

It’s been a few weeks now, and I’m still bored stiff.

From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake