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"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".
New enough and long enough. No apparent issues of sourcing or close paraphrasing. EarWig's shows no problems. ALT1, ALT2, and Alt1b are hooky and cited in-line. ALT0 should only be used for APRILFOOLS, as it is technically disingenuous unless we say "watching Paint Drying". I have a slight preference for ALT2 and ALT1b but I also like the "for ...
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(This parameter was added primarily to ease conversion from misuse of the pull quote template {{Quote frame}} for block quotation, but it may aid in cleaner meta-data implementation later.) |character= a.k.a. |char= or |5= – to attribute fictional speech to a fictional character, with other citation information. Can also be used to attribute ...
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