Spain feared Italy, the team that many liked to portray as everything Spain were not: dirty, cynical, boring … successful.
There's something about the Italians that tends to get their Spanish neighbours going, sending the stereotypes streaming: Italy, it's often said, are cynical, dirty and boring.
Construction workers in torn, dirty jeans bored a hole into the sidewalk, geysering dirt everywhere.
Machines will do the all the boring, dirty, and unsafe work.
Over here, people think Italian football is dirty, cynical, talentless and boring.
More flexible robots are getting cheaper and better at doing all the boring and dirty stuff.Add to that another 1.8 billion consumers who will join the global marketplace in the next 15 years and "Manufacturing the Future", a new report by the McKinsey Global Institute, has good cause to be optimistic.
Behind the plastic front, a dirty great hole has been bored through by the shell, wrecking the drum and turning the motor into a puddle of metal.
I wish I had a tab of acid now because this place is dirtier than the Alamo and almost as boring.
"Musicals are boring and scrubbed clean, but we're dirty.
But they were business-class bores compared to the grotesque sidekicks who got their hands dirty snapping necks, hurling bodies from planes and generally doing their masters' gruesome bidding.
