mind-numbing

mind-numbing

Extremely dull and boring. If we have to sit through another mind-numbing lecture today, I'm going to need another cup of coffee!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • numb
  • ain’t 1
  • it's dogged that does it
  • go out of
  • other than
  • other than (something)
  • pillow-biter
  • let something drop
  • play cards
  • on one
References in periodicals archive
Proving that everyone has their off days, it's an exercise in mind-numbing pretension, interspersed with grotesque violence.
ONLY GOD FORGIVES (18) [...]
What is even worse, is that the sub-contractors, who produce their own trailers, insert subliminal messages (which we were told is illegal) into their quick-fire montage of sound or video clips, far more mind-numbing than flash photography, then dictate where and when they are broadcast.
BBC's mind-numbing disruptive trailers; LETTERS
The table below lists the roads that witnessed over 100 accidents in the past year, with Cairo's 26 of July/ Mohandseen topping the list with a mind-numbing 575 accidents in 2012,accordingto Bey2ollak.com.
A Year in Review: Road accidents in Cairo
Of all involved, the truly smitten person appears to be Sarah Cameron Sunde, translator and helmer of four plays by this Norwegian scribe, who writes in a languid poetic idiom that is mind-numbing. But the love-sickness also got to Allen, taking the role of a woman who keeps re-playing in her mind the long-ago summer day when her husband disappeared at sea.
A Summer Day
Bear in mind that Dubai is the UAE's most populous emirate and the logistics are mind-numbing.
Not getting ID card isn't an option
Coach Steve Brown says Danielle has three winning assets: a high pain threshold, "mind-numbing" consistency, and--most important she hates to lose.
Going the distance
A judge in Washington took pity at his bleak upbringing at the hands of an alcoholic mother and her convict boyfriends - a situation she described as a "mind-numbing absence of hope".
BAREFOOT BANDIT BROUGHT TO HEEL
It was the most mind-numbing experience I've ever had."
Worst jobs in Wales
The sale price of $16 million is a mind-numbing drop of 54 percent from his original list price in 2005 of $35 million.
Shaq's Star Island sale may set price floor
The literature review is mind-numbing and jargon-laden.
Turning Around Failing Schools: Leadership Lessons from the Organizational Sciences
The problems that Coventry council has created with the implementation of bus lanes at this junction are addressed by Mr Richards with the mind-numbing idea of coning off the bus lane until "general motorists have acclimatised themselves to the new arrangements".
Letter: Your Say - Arrogant council rides roughshod over public's wishes once again
Sold, ITV's Hotel Babylon rip-off without the clever script, is more mind-numbing than a date with Holly Willoughby.
I'm not Sold on this one; the wise man of tv
I work full time--ugly, mind-numbing, blue collar, but necessary labor.
Poet Laureate Donald Hall
There were civil rights marches and boycotts, protests against mind-numbing atrocities committed in response to black people seeking the right to vote and a higher education.
Glory days: on the Joffrey's 50th, Christian Holder looks back and ahead
With bone-shattering spills and mind-numbing thrills, It's Time will never get stale and smell of fish.
Making ze Circa Video