yawner

yawner

informal Any person or thing that is particularly boring, i.e., that which causes one to yawn. I got stuck next to a real yawner for the whole dinner. The guy just would not shut up about his concrete business. I thought this class would be an easy A, but it's been such a yawner that I wish I had taken something more interesting.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

yawner

n. a boring show or performance. It was a yawner from the opening curtain straight through to the end.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • a real howler
  • howler
  • one-horse town
  • a one-horse town
  • burg
  • extreme
  • taker
  • a double taker
  • boring in the extreme
References in periodicals archive
and don't land late, we've stretched the day out long enough and maintenance needs the jets back on time." OK, simple sortie (actually a "yawner"): fight-tank-fight and get the F-16s back on time.
Dubbed French version is Gaul's fifth-largest opener ever, but the $80 million pricetag will prove a huge obstacle given a likely yawner Yank bow in its English-language version Jan.
The following day I was speaking to some advertising agency folks about my goals for the brands I lead and likewise mentioned that "awareness is a big yawner for me." The reaction was far different.
"Hey you!" the drunk Legionnaire snaps, pointing to the yawner, "What did I just say?
But that's the kind of cliched yawner non-specific pap that fills most resumes.
Aviation is out, or at least, a yawner, for reinsurance underwriters.
Needless to say, the leading idea, that introspection coupled with aggressive preoccupation could lead anywhere, was what made the decade such a yawner. But there were times within the period which produced brilliant laughs as if they were made to order.
From this perspective, the truth about new economies becomes a bit of a yawner. It's all fairly antiseptic, a matter of technology shifting a bunch of cost curves.
With those deals totaling less than $200 million, versus $1.2 billion in daily sales all last year, the period was "kind of a yawner," said Owen Van Essen, president of the Santa Fe, N.M.-based Dirks, Van Essen & Murray, which handled most of those deals.
(37.) Gordon Gibson, "Canada's free ride ended September 11," National Post, 29 September 2001; Christie Blatchford, "Tepid speech, tepid nation: Chretien's yawner illustrates how soft country has grown," National Post, 25 September 2001; "Our invisible government." Editorial, National Post, 15 September 2001.
XML, for example, is all well and good, but for the vast majority of the academic community, the topic is a real yawner.
In contrast, it also carries the weightly, $83 World Factbook put out by the CIA or The Congressional Picture Directory for $11; A Consumer's Guide to Intelligence goes for $6, and a yawner, Global Forum on Fighting Corruption, is $27.
bullet at 2,660 fps is a real yawner, but it has a wonderful reputation as a game taker with modern bullets.
"Unfortunately for most of the newspaper companies, these solid numbers have sort of been a yawner." Stock prices have languished, with only six companies recording 52-week highs this year and the majority having seen share prices steadily erode since last summer.
By most accounts, the 1996 presidential election was a yawner. On this conventional view, President Clinton had the early edge because his opponent, the former Senate majority leader Bob Dole, was an uninspiring candidate.