What is the origin of the term "Couch Potato"?
2021年1月22日 · Some of the T-shirts featured a laid-back spud qua couch potato, i.e. a "tuber". Them was the days. Finally from A. Allan: The origin of "couch potato" is explained in detail in a book to be published in October by Houghton Mifflin: "Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success" by Allan Metcalf. Here is a pertinent excerpt:
meaning - What does the phrase 'proverbial couch' mean?
2019年5月19日 · Welcome to EL&U, Ali."The proverbial couch" is a reference to the term couch potato. Merriam Webster defines it as: a lazy and inactive person especially : one who spends a great deal of time watching television. Proverbial is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as. as used in a proverb or other phrase:
Are there any cool slang words for "couch potato"? [closed]
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Is “get somebody off the couch” a well-established idiom?
It's not an idiomatic expression, but its derived from an expression, "Couch Potato". A "couch potato" is a lazy person, who sits on the couch and watches tv, and presumeably eating, so the headlines "Six ways to get your kids off the couch, into a good job." basically means "Six ways to make your kids stop being lazy, and into a good job." The ...
What do you call a person who doesn't like/hates traveling?
2015年4月6日 · I think "couch potato" tends to have a stronger connotation. More than someone who doesn't like to travel, this person doesn't even like to leave the house and won't make an effort to help clean the house. –
Do the following three expressions have the same meaning?
2014年12月23日 · One cannot tell whether they have the same meaning, because none of them are clear enough; mainly because none specifies whether the time mentioned is a departure or arrival time.
What is a word for being dead yet alive at the same time
2015年12月14日 · I would suggest couch potato or Live TV Audience as possibilities. – TimR. Commented Dec 14, 2015 at 12:44.
What is the origin of "giving [it] the old college try"?
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adjectives - Turn out "good" vs turn out "well" - English Language ...
2016年2月26日 · We have the stereotype of the beer-guzzling couch-potato watching mindless action movies in which things routinely explode: "That blew up real good!" So, many native speakers will think you're an uneducated bumpkin if you say "That worked out real good". Telling them that you're a descriptivist not a prescriptivist won't get you very far.
Is there a word for someone who does no work of their own, but ...
2015年3月6日 · One who avoids their own duties is often called a shirker.Oxford Dictionaries Online defines shirk as . Avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility): their sole motive is to shirk responsibility and rip off the company