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Recent Examples of dullsvillePure dullsville in Van Nuys.—Boris Dralyuk, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2021 Speaking of winds, attempting to surf off Galveston in the summertime is dullsville.—Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2020 Next, if things remain dullsville, Anton Blidh could draw into the lineup.—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
So when these things do occur, journalists greet the news with a yawn.
TIP: Don’t start your pitch by celebrating all that is going well.
Adrian Dearnell,
Forbes,
11 Dec. 2024
Advertisement Wall Street’s initial reaction to Wednesday’s cut was a yawn, after markets had already run up for months on expectations for coming rate reductions.
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