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Rex Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
Couch-potatoe
British men are couch potatoes who spend nearly half their free-time watching TV, an EU survey has revealed.
They watch more TV than women, do less housework, less charity work and less childcare - but spend more time shopping, the poll suggests.
Analysts from Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, interviewed working men and women in 10 countries.
Britain, where men devoted 49% of their free-time to the box, came a narrow second to the Hungarians with 51%.
German and Norwegian men watched the least TV - just over one third of their spare time.
The statisticians took the average of the figures for the whole year including holidays and weekends.
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My dictionary says the word couch-potatoe means lazy. Is it BrE?
What is the origin of it? I mean to equate a lazy human being to a couch potatoe is strange. There should be a some other story behind this. Someone may have got clue here. Your comments please.
They watch more TV than women, do less housework, less charity work and less childcare - but spend more time shopping, the poll suggests.
Analysts from Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, interviewed working men and women in 10 countries.
Britain, where men devoted 49% of their free-time to the box, came a narrow second to the Hungarians with 51%.
German and Norwegian men watched the least TV - just over one third of their spare time.
The statisticians took the average of the figures for the whole year including holidays and weekends.
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My dictionary says the word couch-potatoe means lazy. Is it BrE?
What is the origin of it? I mean to equate a lazy human being to a couch potatoe is strange. There should be a some other story behind this. Someone may have got clue here. Your comments please.
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couch potatoe is a noun, meaning a lazy person. While I don't know the true origin of it, I suspect that came from lazy people who watch TV while lying down on the couch and eating food, often potatoe chips (or other carbohydrates) and drinking pop or beer. They are likely overweight and get very little exercise, other than hitting the remote control.
- couch potatoe is a noun, meaning a lazy person.
- While I don't know the true origin of it, I suspect that came from lazy people who watch TV while lying down on the couch and eating food, often potatoe chips (or other carbohydrates) and drinking pop or beer.
- They are likely overweight and get very little exercise, other than hitting the remote control.
- Couch potatoe is widely used in North America, and probably the world.
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couch potatoe is a noun, meaning a lazy person.
While I don't know the true origin of it, I suspect that came from lazy people who watch TV while lying down on the couch and eating food, often potatoe chips (or other carbohydrates) and drinking pop or beer. They are likely overweight and get very little exercise, other than hitting the remote control.
Couch potatoe is widely
While I don't know the true origin of it, I suspect that came from lazy people who watch TV while lying down on the couch and eating food, often potatoe chips (or other carbohydrates) and drinking pop or beer. They are likely overweight and get very little exercise, other than hitting the remote control.
Couch potatoe is widely
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I found a possible answer here http://www.answers.com/topic/couch-potato .
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And "mouse potato" is the equivalent for one who continually sits at the PC playing games and surfing.
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MilkyAnd "mouse potato" is the equivalent for one who continually sits at the PC playing games and surfing.I just learned this one from one of our local guides in China two weeks ago. I think it's cute.
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