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Определение ho-hum в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
- Boring; not interesting or novel
She wore ho-hum clothes, but practical ones.
- Used to express boredom, disinterest or lack of novelty
Look at all this paperwork. Ho-hum!.
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
- used to say that you are bored (ho-hum an expression of being bored)
- feelings You can say ho hum to show that you accept an unpleasant situation because it is not very serious. Ho hum, another nice job down the drain. Used to express boredom, weariness, or contempt
- feelings You can use ho hum when you want to show that you think something is not interesting, remarkable, or surprising in any way. My general reaction to this news might be summed up as `ho-hum'