bored stiff

Frequency: 6.570.3 per million words

A common informal phrase for being extremely bored.

Categories:

Examples (10)

  • I remember being bored stiff during my entire time at school.
  • I'm bored stiff in this history lecture.
  • He was bored stiff by his uncle's endless stories about fishing.
  • If we have to sit through another one of his presentations, I'll be bored stiff.
  • The children were bored stiff on the long car ride.
  • We started to get bored stiff after the second hour of waiting.
  • Weren't you bored stiff during that three-hour opera?
  • To be honest, everyone in the boardroom looked bored stiff.
  • I was bored stiff listening to the politician's speech; it had no substance.
  • After a week with no internet, the teenagers were absolutely bored stiff.