10 Metaphors for bored

Two bore two menone was the Good; The third rose waiting, bare.

The smooth bore of the rifle is 0.30 inch in diameter.

The smooth-bore is the gun for downright honest sport.

The hexagonal bore is not a new invention, some of the Russians having used it in the late Baltic campaign; but it is doubtless Mr. Whitworth's wonderful accuracy of construction that is destined to give it celebrity, by arming it with a power and correctness it wanted before.[CQ]

Well was it that two out of the three divisions were armed with Minies, for these created terrible havoc among the Russians, whose smooth-bores were no match for these newly-invented weapons.

A bore is a man or a woman who never knows How or When.

I could see nothing of the river itself beyond the reach in which the boats were lying; its upper extremity bore South by West and was about half a mile from our halting place.

The painful accuracy which makes some men such deadly bores is a form of monomania.

You know the old saying that a bore is a person who wants to talk about himself when you want to talk about yourself.

The name these newcomers bore was Tuata De Danaan, the De Danaan tribes; they were golden-haired and full of knowledge, and their coming was heavy with destiny for the dark races of Fomor and Firbolg.

10 Metaphors for  bored