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dry as dust

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It was no use trying to be dry-as-dust since the spring had got into her blood.

The unwritten history of this wonderful and intrepid body of men must be a long way from the dry-as-dust histories on the shelves.

They are not dry-as-dust compilations of statistics, but full of interesting matter and delightfully well written.

A dry-as-dust old fellow, Perry, going to France for some kind of research work.

It must be rendered interesting and fascinating or it will be no better than the old Dry-as-dust teaching.

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On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dry as dust, such as: barren, bone-dry, desert, dusty, parched, and dry as a bone.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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