| 释义 |
couch potato
noun
a person who habitually idles, watching television US, 1976
Possibly a pun on “boob-tuber” (a television addict) and a “potato” as a “tuber;” it may also play on VEGETABLEOfficial Couch Potato Handbook (1983).- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 2, Spring 1984
- I’d be ready to give odds he’s a couch potato, sitting in watching television while the other kids are out batting the baseball around or playing soccer. — Robert Campbell, The Cat’s Meow, p. 75, 1988
- — American Speech, Fall 1988
- For me the Couch Potato of TV Demonology looks like Dandy Nichols in the early seventies. — Stuart Jeffries, Mrs Slocombe’s Pussy, p. xix, 2000
- Steady, gray drizzle that encourages statewide bad hair and couch potato mentality. — Janet Evanovich, Seven Up, p. 77, 2001
|