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Dull as Ditch-water

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Uninteresting; ditch-water is stagnant and has no go in it.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Dulcarnon
Dulce Domum
Dulce est Desipere in Loco
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Dulcinea
Dulcinists
Dulia
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Dull as Ditch-water
Dulness
Dum Sola (Latin)
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Dum Vivimus, Vivamus (Latin)
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Dumb-barge (A)
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