When I first heard the phrase, I heard dishwater, but then later I also heard ditchwater, so I looked it up and found out that it is in fact ditchwater but you can say dishwater if you like.
DULL as dishwater or ditchwater?
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I always heard the phrase using the word DISHWATERfrom my mother. As I kid, I got it—nothing duller than looking down at dish water while washing the dinner dishes. 
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When I was a child we had a rota for washing & drying the DINNER plates. On one occasion I tried to balance the plates on thexside and dropped them all. Not sure if I was trying to get out of washing up but it didn’t work. I wasn’t very popular with mum & dad though.
It seems kids(and adults) usually drop something sometime, somewhere. When I was a kid I accidentally DROPPED my teeth retainers down the garbage disposal. They were on a plate under my orange peels. It cost my parents a few hundred $$ to replace them. (A lot of money back then, and we were not rich. ) I felt so bad, I cried and cried. My dad, usually very serious and strict didn’t get mad at all. He felt sorry for my tears, I guess.
Awwwww 
Often when people have many things on the go at one time they are said to have many PLATES spinning. The trick is not to drop any of them.
My mother first shared a variant of this quote with me and I have never forgotten it.
Drop by drop is the water pot filled.
Mum’s variant is “Tipe tipe sarovar bharai” - accurately translated (for once by Google translate)
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It is said that the hardest TRICK to perform on a skateboard is the “Gazelle Flip” (also called the “LIon Flip”)
How much would you pay for a COIN? How about $3,865,750 ?
1804 Bust Dollar - Class I (Dexter-Pogue Specimen)
Price Realized: $3,865,750
Date Sold: March 31, 2017
Sold By: Stack’s Bowers Galleries and Sotheby’s
Think that might be out of my price range 
Do you remember the days when you used to receive your PAY in cash ? These days it’s all done by bank transfer. I used to look forward to collecting my PAY in cash.
Do kids still put money in a piggy BANK? If they filled the whole pig, they maybe could buy a stuffed pig. But not much else.
Oh I hope they do. I used to love counting the pennies in my piggy bank.
Eating too much is often described as being PIGGY. Something I used to be guilty of.
When a kids are GUILTY, of something, you can see it on their faces.
“Cookie? What cookie? I didn’t see a cookie.”
oh i remember those faces well.
It isn’t just KIDS who have GUILTY FACES. Dogs often do too…it wasn’t me honest.
Who says ir is just kids that can have GOOD times? These older people look like they are enjoying life still.
Just because a person got OLDER doesn’t mean they’re not still beautiful. A beautiful spirit shines through and makes the outside beautiful, too.
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