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Record 1 2001-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

It should be a TV programmer's dream: more than a million viewers with nothing better to do than sit in front of the tube all day. But this audience is really captive; they are inmates in the nation's 400 prisons and jails ... Does TV turn inmates into cell potatoes? ... But not everyone approves of turning convicts into couch potatoes.

OBS

Compare "desk potato" and "couch potato".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
OBS

Néologismes créés à partir de taule, taulard et télézard (le dernier étant lui-même construit de télévision et lézarder, c.à.d paresser devant la télé).

Spanish

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