bored stiff
Frequency: 6.570.3 per million words
A common informal phrase for being extremely bored.
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- 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.