Jack was bored to death…

I took my American friend Marc to watch Aiyya. He was bored to death 🙁

Better spoken English skills mean more jobs, faster promotions, greater confidence and a happier you.

Apart from daily spoken English practice, what would really help you is to learn one or two new phrases every day.

Here, we will learn how to be bored to death 🙂

Well, not really. We will only discuss the phrase.

Let’s begin with some examples:

1. Prof Shastri talked about the reasons behind Hitler’s rise to power before World War II. I was bored to death.
2. This movie is so pathetic, I was bored to tears.
3. We are bored to death watching Rakhi Swanat’s antics.
4. Shahrukh Khan bored people to death in Mohabbatein.
5. I can’t sit through the kirtans. I mean they remix bhajans to the tune of filmy songs and expect everyone to bask in the glory of God. It bores me to death.
6. Whenever we sit together, Harinder bores me to death with his stories of how many plots and flats he has purchased at how much black.

Any guesses?

Should be simple enough.

Bored means bored and to death implies so bored that you are almost dead.

Another variant is being bored to tears – so bored that you want to cry.

Thus, when something is extremely boring and you just can’t bear it – it is boring you to death.

Use it to express a situation when something is painfully, unbearably uninteresting.

Let’s close with some more examples:

1. Please mom, you bore me to death with those morality lectures.
2. DD News bores me to death. However, the news on several private channels too is not terribly interesting either.
3. Everyone praised this book sky high and that’s why I bought it. However, it bored me to death and I couldn’t go beyond 10 pages.
4. Earlier, I really liked Age of Empires but now, it bores me to death.