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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]
A non-narrative film, Paint Drying consists of 607 minutes (10 hours and 7 minutes) of a static view of white paint drying on a brick wall. The entire film is a single continuous shot, and there is no audio. [3] [4] It receives its title from the expression "like watching paint dry", [5] which refers to something very tedious or boring. [6]
His style was famously criticised by Gene Hackman's character in the 1975 film Night Moves who describes viewing Rohmer's films as "kind of like watching paint dry". [ 9 ] Rohmer was a highly literary man.
The last time the Federal Reserve laid the groundwork for shrinking its balance sheet, in 2017, then-Chair Janet Yellen said she expected the process would be "like watching paint dry." The ...
“Investing is like watching paint dry. You set it up and then you set up an automatic transfer that comes right out of your checking account every month and then you get on with your life.”
“It was the most boring thing in the world — like watching paint dry,” Kuttner says. “Quantitative easing changed all that.” How the Fed used its balance sheet to help the economy during ...
[3] About one year later, while interviewed for NME, he went as far as stating that "I don’t like the Eagles. They’re about as exciting as watching paint dry. They’re about as exciting as watching paint dry.
New York Daily News Archive / Contributor/Getty Images. But then, 25 years later, a curious thing happened. I had children. And they wanted to read Harry Potter.In fact, they wanted me to read it ...