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A sign warning of wet paint "Like watching paint dry" is an English-language idiom describing an activity as being particularly boring or tedious. [1] It is believed to have originated in the United States. [2] A similar phrase is "watching the grass grow". [3]
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
Tom Milne said that the film was "almost universally greeted as a disappointment, at best a whimsical exercise in the faux-naif in its attempt to capture the poetic simplicity of medieval faith, at worse an anticlimatic blunder" and that it was "rather like watching the animation of a medieval manuscript, with the text gravely read aloud while ...
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Red and black paint covered the firm’s sign with phrases that included "Free Palestine," "Divest now," "F*** You Acker" and "UM Kills." The vandals also left red handprints on the doors.
Cassie Chambers Armstrong is now a Kentucky state senator, but in 2022, when she was a member of Louisville Metro Council, she spearheaded the city's first proactive lead paint abatement law.
Nominator(s): ツ LunaEatsTuna ()— 00:33, 5 March 2023 (UTC) [] An independent filmmaker forced the British Board of Film Classification to watch paint dry for ten hours. I have exhausted all available sources I could find, including scraping TWL, and comparing this to other shorter film FAs (via Petscan) it looks suitabl
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