Watching paint dry
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watching-paint-dry-179-6802092
title:
Watching paint dry
text:
"Like watching paint dry" is an English-language idiom describing an activity as being particularly boring or really tedious. It is believed to have originated in the United States. A similar phrase is "watching the grass grow".
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Idiomatic English expression
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watching_paint_dry
date created:
2006-01-09T22:51:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T00:14:27Z
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