Idiom
bored shitless
Vulgar
Meaning
Very bored
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I am bored shitless sitting in this long meeting.”
“The lecture was so repetitive that most of the students were bored shitless by the end of the hour.”
“Trapped in the remote village with nothing to do for weeks, he found himself utterly bored shitless by the monotonous routine.”
Examples
simple
“I am bored shitless sitting in this long meeting.”
contextual
“The lecture was so repetitive that most of the students were bored shitless by the end of the hour.”
complex
“Trapped in the remote village with nothing to do for weeks, he found himself utterly bored shitless by the monotonous routine.”
Origin
Modelled after the earlier expression *scared shitless*, and following the same linguistic pattern to denote an extreme state of boredom. The term represents a late 20th-century intensification of the adjective, adopting the vulgar suffix to signify that the condition has reached a point of total saturation.
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