"watch paint dry" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "watches paint dry",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "watching paint dry",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "watched paint dry",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "watched paint dry",
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        "past"
      ]
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I expected his new play to be as good as the last, but it was like watching paint dry.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Sarah Mlynowski, Fishbowl, Harlequin",
          "text": "I click on it. And wait. And wait. And wait. Why does it take so long? It's so slow. This is worse than watching paint dry. Not that I've actually ever watched paint dry. Or even painted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Kate McGovern, Rules for 50/50 Chances, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 224",
          "text": "“I am starving, that is true. But I'd never get bored. I could watch paint dry with you and I wouldn't get bored.” “You could watch paint dry with me? That sounds delightful,” I say.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To watch something that has virtually no movement, hence, something very boring."
      ],
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        [
          "boring",
          "boring"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) To watch something that has virtually no movement, hence, something very boring."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "watch grass grow"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "tuijottaa seinää"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "nudzić się"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "mirar las musarañas"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "watch paint dry"
}

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    {
      "form": "watches paint dry",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "watching paint dry",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "watched paint dry",
      "tags": [
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        "past"
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    },
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        {
          "text": "I expected his new play to be as good as the last, but it was like watching paint dry.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Sarah Mlynowski, Fishbowl, Harlequin",
          "text": "I click on it. And wait. And wait. And wait. Why does it take so long? It's so slow. This is worse than watching paint dry. Not that I've actually ever watched paint dry. Or even painted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Kate McGovern, Rules for 50/50 Chances, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 224",
          "text": "“I am starving, that is true. But I'd never get bored. I could watch paint dry with you and I wouldn't get bored.” “You could watch paint dry with me? That sounds delightful,” I say.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To watch something that has virtually no movement, hence, something very boring."
      ],
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          "boring",
          "boring"
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        "(humorous) To watch something that has virtually no movement, hence, something very boring."
      ],
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        "humorous"
      ]
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "watch grass grow"
    }
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "tuijottaa seinää"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "nudzić się"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "mirar las musarañas"
    }
  ],
  "word": "watch paint dry"
}