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  • Juma's I know that life can sometimes be boring.

  • Perhaps you're watching a boring movie.

  • Perhaps you're having a boring conversation.

  • To be honest, there's nothing more boring than waiting for a bus without your mobile phone.

  • Oh, my goodness.

  • But please, guys, let's stop saying the world boring.

  • There are so many creative alternatives, and here they are, just for you.

  • Okay, Number one and easy sitting in Dull Doe and means boring.

  • Exactly the same.

  • That film was really dull.

  • Perfect.

  • Okay, dollars dishwater or Dallas ditch water.

  • It's up to you.

  • You can play about with it.

  • Bit more creative are that film was dull as dishwater.

  • A person could be his Dallas dishwater.

  • Oh, I get it.

  • Thank God they're gonna He's just as dishwater.

  • Brilliant.

  • Okay, Number three.

  • Tedious.

  • Tedious.

  • I love it.

  • Tedious.

  • Your commute to work could be tedious.

  • Man, My commute is so tedious.

  • If you're a uni student, you could describe the lecture is being tedious.

  • If you're at work today and you're in a meeting, perhaps that was tedious.

  • So many options for this word.

  • Tedious.

  • Okay, next one.

  • I love this one.

  • Dry, dry.

  • If something is dry It's boring, yes, but also quite serious.

  • So, for example, maybe you're reading a book.

  • Maybe it's a Children's book right on, but it's it's just not exciting is just really too serious and just no life to it.

  • You could say, Wow, this books really dry?

  • Sorry, kids, let's read something else.

  • Like this book is really dry.

  • It's really uninspiring.

  • In many ways.

  • Perhaps you've just gone on a first date and you having a conversation with someone and then offers.

  • You're telling your friend You say what?

  • The conversation was really dry like nothing.

  • There was just no excitement.

  • There was no interest.

  • It was a bit serious.

  • Nothing to get excited about.

  • Dry.

  • I love this one.

  • Monotonous, monotonous.

  • This is when it's boring because it doesn't change, so it could be a sound.

  • Could be a voice.

  • Could be your life monotonous.

  • It's the same every time.

  • They don't sound any different, and maybe you want to cry because you're so bored inside.

  • But we can't say the word board because that's boring, so we're going to say the word monotonous.

  • Tom's Voice is extremely main office because it hasn't changed pitch or tone or intonation at all.

  • Oh, my goodness.

  • I can't believe you watch this, OK?

  • All right.

  • I'm sorry about that.

  • Next one.

  • Humdrum, Humdrum.

  • That's brilliant.

  • I love the sound of that.

  • It's the same idea, right?

  • That nothing new happens the same thing.

  • So your life could be humdrum.

  • A town or a village or a city Could be humdrum night.

  • Nothing new happened.

  • I've moved to a really humdrum town in Wales.

  • Okay, if we want to be extremely bored, we could say mind numbing, mind numbing.

  • Ah, think about what that is.

  • So your mind gets So, boy, that switches off.

  • It becomes numb, right?

  • I'm sure it was talking to you.

  • Be like, Dude, I'm so bored right now.

  • I'm just switching off.

  • Can't believe we're watching this film.

  • Why are we watching this film?

  • I'm so bored when you switch up the film, I'll come back again And you like please?

  • OK, I'll start watching the film would do something else.

  • Would you want to do play cards, go for a ride?

  • What you want to do anything but I just done.

  • I'm so numb right now.

  • I'm really sorry.

  • We won't watch again.

  • I'm sorry Okay, let's move into food now.

  • The word bland is perfect.

  • If you want to describe food that has no taste, it has no excitement.

  • Is just It is boring.

  • If it doesn't do anything, you could say it's bland.

  • It has no flavor.

  • It has no taste.

  • My cooking is definitely not bland, I promise you, it's not returning back to the idea that something is boring.

  • But is it?

  • Nothing ever changes, you could say Mundane, mundane and again.

  • Same idea, right?

  • So a conversation could be mundane, mundane conversation.

  • My day today, I was pretty mundane day like nothing interesting happened.

  • Nothing new happened mundane.

  • Oh, this is a nice one.

  • Dreary, dreary.

  • Now this is boring, Andi.

  • It makes you a little bit unhappy as well.

  • So, for example, weather could be dreary.

  • So it's like if it's raining like a little bit like drizzling like all day.

  • Great clouds, you could say, Well, the weather is really dreary, like it's boring and it makes your sad life could be dreary.

  • He lived a very dreary life, his one with another twist.

  • Drab, drab.

  • This is lacking in color so we could have a drab city you have a drab area neighborhood.

  • You have drab clothes like I help.

  • It's a bit drab.

  • I think we need a bit of color like it's lacking in color is boring because it lacks color.

  • It's no really interesting if we're thinking about songs or movies, things that that we could say forgettable, forgettable because it was so boring.

  • Nothing happened.

  • It was not interesting that we don't even remember it.

  • I went to a play the other day, and it was entirely forgettable.

  • The whole two hours, nothing happened.

  • Nothing happened.

  • Completely forgettable, all right, and I've saved my favorite one till last.

  • It's an idiom Tow.

  • Watch paint dry to watch paint dry.

  • Think about that idea watching paint dry probably one of the most boring activities in the world.

  • So if something is like watching paint dry you were describing is being boring.

  • Like that football match was like watching paint dry.

  • Or you could say, like I'd rather watch paint dry, like maybe your friend has told you to watch Love Island and your life.

  • To be honest, I'd rather watch paint dry.

  • I'd rather watch paint dry like the idea of watching Love Island is so boring to me that I'd rather watch paint dry.

  • Now I'd love to know.

  • What's that in your language?

  • How do you translate that?

  • Is there an equivalent off watching paint dry?

  • Do you do something else on?

  • Also, guys, if you cannot lucky to leave a comment below using one of these phrases, Try not to describe this video as, like watching paint dry.

  • Okay.

  • Okay, guys, Thank you so much for watching This is home.

  • The chief dreamer sang goodbye.

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