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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]
It was kinda like watching paint dry." [ 9 ] The exchange from Night Moves was quoted in director Éric Rohmer 's New York Times obituary in 2010. [ 10 ] Arthur Penn was an admirer of Rohmer's films; [ 11 ] Bruce Jackson has written an extended discussion of the role of My Night at Maud's in Night Moves ; its protagonist and Moseby have related ...
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).
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 ...
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]
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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.