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22 Ιαν 2021 · It was on July 15, 1976, we are told, that couch potato came into being, uttered by Tom Iacino of Pasadena, California, during a telephone conversation. He was a member of a Southern California group humorously opposing the fads of exercise and healthy diet in favor of vegetating before the TV and eating junk food (1973).
19 Μαΐ 2019 · 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:
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 ...
10 Νοε 2017 · Origin of slang "fire" meaning "cool" / "great" and does it have any relation to "fam"? 2 Are there any short single words that differentiate between ratio and sum type relativity?
29 Ιαν 2020 · Possible meaning in the context of "Do you like potatoes?" Money: "Do you like money?" Penis: Do you like penises? Menstruation (used to avoid the term "period" around those who might be offended or confused): "Do you like periods?" Lazy dudes, couch potatoes: Do you like lazy dudes?
23 Δεκ 2014 · 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. To make it clear, include "scheduled to depart" or "scheduled to arrive".
Nut is slang for head. And nut case means head case; i.e, mind/brain injury/illness.. It's a pretty obvious metaphor: nuts and human heads have breakable covers, are spherical living things, and are filled with other important living things (some of which may even resemble one another -- compare walnut meats with brain hemispheres visually, for instance).
23 Απρ 2021 · Essentially, just a situation (often an argument) where the terminology, the precise meaning of words used by different parties, is different, when essentially the same thing is being said in different ways. Examples include: But this is largely an argument of semantics. [Wired]
16 Μαρ 2017 · This is a softer idiom that a rotten potato, as a rotten potato cannot be made good but must be removed. A weak link is still good, but not good enough, and the weakness of the weak link will cause the chain to break. A weak link can be strengthened. Another possibility is. if one falls we all fall.
2 Ιουλ 2014 · Because of the song, tomayto, tomahto has come to be used as an expression meaning “unimportant difference.” The tomato originated in South America. The tomato originated in South America. The Spaniards first brought tomato seeds to Europe in the 1540s.
