Wiktionary
watching paint dry
vb. (present participle of watch paint dry English)
Usage examples of "watching paint dry".
Watching her body get an even tan was about as quick-moving a spectator sport as watching paint dry, but it did hold certain advantages over paint-watching when viewed in all of its many aspects, and it provided me with just about my only form of diversion during the first week of the voyage.
It's about as exciting as watching paint dry, tedious as hell, but it's important and it takes a special kind of mind to do it.
He'd served on those before and was sure that commanding one, even a new Ohio, was about as exciting as watching paint dry.
In viewer interest, this phone bit ranks somewhere between watching grass grow and watching paint dry.