- water that somebody has used to wash dirty plates, etc.
- (humorous) The coffee looked and tasted like dishwater (= it was weak and unpleasant).
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See dishwater in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary(as) dull as dishwater (US English)
(British English (as) dull as ditchwater)
- extremely boring
- I always found history as dull as dishwater.
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