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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).
B. Back-seat driver; Barking up the wrong tree; Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball; Bed of roses; Belling the Cat; Best friends forever
The law is an ass (from English writer Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist) The leopard does not change his spots; The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing; The light is on but nobody is home; The longest day must have an end; The longest journey starts with a single step; The Moon is made of green cheese; The more the merrier
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
Mangione hadn't vented his frustration to anyone after he was nabbed from an Altona, Pa. McDonald's Monday morning, according to his lawyer Thomas Dickey.
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Meet the main characters, black cats Kevin and Satan, painted by Vanessa Stockard in various backgrounds, which may be references to the art world, pop culture, literature or natural landscapes.