It won’t stay like this forever will it? https://www.flakefood.com/866891/it-wont-stay-like-this-forever-will-it/ Been on a bit of a dry spell lately. Hope to break it soon 🤞🎣👍 Posted by leveckjt87
BBC Radio 1 Going Home with Katie and Jamie Now Playing Kacey Musgraves Dry Spell
A prolonged period without any romantic or sexual activity. Measured in months, announced self-deprecatingly in group chats, occasionally weaponized as a reason for bad decisions. The length of your dry spell is usually inversely correlated with your patience for small talk on apps.
"Eighteen-month dry spell. At this point I've forgotten how to flirt."
“It won’t stay like this forever will it? https://www.flakefood.com/866891/it-wont-stay-like-this-forever-will-it/ Been on a bit of a dry spell lately. Hope to break it soon 🤞🎣👍 Posted by leveckjt87”
A 'dry spell' is a long period without something you normally enjoy or expect — most commonly used about sexual activity, dating success, creative inspiration, sporting victories, or sales at work. 'I've been in a dating dry spell' is candidly admitting a lull. If your teen uses it, the context usually makes clear which sense they mean. Harmless conversational language about temporary lulls.
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“the 'dry spell' music video features a cake that elton john farted on i can't believe this”
“A dry spell stretching from late April to race day left the track with thick dust that obscured the horses from view for part of the race.”
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A period of time without sexual intercourse.
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A period or time where there is little activity, productivity, low income etc.
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A drawn-out period where the weather has been dry, for an abnormally long time; shorter and not as severe as a drought.
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