{"id":233800,"date":"2017-03-31T15:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T15:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gostudyin.com\/uk\/gsi_study_guides\/ielts-idiom-couch-potato\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:50:37","slug":"ielts-idiom-couch-potato","status":"publish","type":"gsi_study_guides","link":"https:\/\/gostudyin.com\/uk\/study-in-uk\/study-guides\/ielts-idiom-couch-potato\/","title":{"rendered":"IELTS Idiom: Couch Potato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning to use idioms and expressions which are common in the English language will make your English sound more native. In our Idiom of the Week series, we will be exploring common English idioms to help you excel in native English.<\/p>\n<h2>Idiom of the Week: Couch potato<\/h2>\n<p>An inactive and usually overweight person who spends a lot of time watching TV. The origin comes from potatoes: unattractive lumps that grow larger while not moving.<\/p>\n<h3>Example 1<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0Come on, let\u2019s go to the shops.<\/li>\n<li><strong>B:<\/strong>\u00a0No, I don\u2019t feel like it. I\u2019ll just stay here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0Oh come on. You haven\u2019t moved from the sofa all day, you\u2019re becoming a real <strong>couch potato<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Example 2<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Question:<\/strong>\u00a0Do you do anything to stay in shape?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0Not really. I play football with my friends sometimes, but I prefer to stay in. I\u2019m a bit of a <strong>couch potato<\/strong> I suppose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Study IELTS in London<\/h2>\n<p>Do you want to improve your English and study cheap and flexible part-time IELTS classes in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gostudyin.com\/study-in-uk\/language-prep\/\">London<\/a>? Visit our Language Centre today to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false},"study-guide-destinations":[127],"study-guide-categories":[],"class_list":["post-233800","gsi_study_guides","type-gsi_study_guides","status-publish","hentry","study-guide-destinations-study-in-uk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gsi_study_guides\/233800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gsi_study_guides"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gsi_study_guides"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"study-guide-destinations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-destinations?post=233800"},{"taxonomy":"study-guide-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-categories?post=233800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}