mouse potato

Related to mouse potato: glass ceiling

mouse potato

Someone who spends an excessive amount of leisure time using a computer while being sedentary. A play on the established phrase "couch potato," someone who similarly spends too much time on the couch watching television (or playing video games, etc.). I've been playing this addictive online video game, and it has turned me into a total mouse potato! This new computer is for school work, do you understand? I don't want you turning into a mouse potato.

mouse potato

n. someone who spends a great amount of time using a computer. (Based on couch potato.) Every since we go the new computer, Jane has turned into a regular mouse potato.

词组	mouse potato
释义	mouse potato Related to mouse potato: glass ceiling mouse potato Someone who spends an excessive amount of leisure time using a computer while being sedentary. A play on the established phrase "couch potato," someone who similarly spends too much time on the couch watching television (or playing video games, etc.). I've been playing this addictive online video game, and it has turned me into a total mouse potato! This new computer is for school work, do you understand? I don't want you turning into a mouse potato. See also: mouse, potato Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. mouse potato n. someone who spends a great amount of time using a computer. (Based on couch potato.) Every since we go the new computer, Jane has turned into a regular mouse potato. See also: mouse, potato McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions See also: be out of (one's) league be out of somebody's league accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey accompany on a journey big spender a stranger to (someone or something) be in bad with (someone) bell, book, and candle bell, book, and candle things that are miraculous or that signal that (one) puts (one's) pants on one leg at a time References in periodicals archive Mouse potato: New generation answer to the couch potato. Here am I thinking you wore a Macintosh Mouse potato: From couch potato - describes a person who spends all his time at the computer. Jack Irvine in New York: Language for the net generation Know a mouse potato who's forever sat in front of the screen, eyes glazed, and constantly clicking? A REALLY MOOSEFUL PRESENT; We've got Christmas covered Perhaps the developers also believe that Indian web users are a bunch of lazy mouse potatoes. Why else would you make all virus scanning automatic? A browser for the desis, of the desis & by the desis So go on you mouse potatoes, get out there and go shopping. Urban agenda These mouse potatoes greet every decision with derision while telling the world and his wife exactly where McClaren has got it wrong. Drag and drop
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