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never a dull moment

  1. (informal) There is always something interesting happening; there is no chance of boredom.
    • 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 9, in Three Men in a Boat [] [1]:
      There is never a dull moment in the boat while girls are towing it.
    • 1907, John F. Macdonald, “French Life and the French Stage”, in The Fortnightly, volume 81, Chapman and Hall, page 168:
      Never a dull moment in this novel; never, indeed, a moment when there was not some anxious situation to face, some formidable difficulty to overcome.

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