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watch paint dry

informal humorous

Definition

used to refer to an activity that you consider extremely boring: "So you don't want to watch the football?" "To be honest I would rather watch paint dry".Tedious and uninspiring
(Definition of watch paint dry from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)