The origin of the couch potato

The translation of "couch potato" was coined by a friend of American Robert Armstrong in 1976, and it was widely disseminated because it was concise, vivid, and vivid. In the early 80s of the 20th century, Armstrong also registered a trademark for the term "couch potato". In 1993, the term was included in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Now "couch potato" has become common in newspapers and on the Internet. Not only has it entered the vocabulary of Americans, but it has also gradually been accepted by readers in the Chinese-speaking world and in China. The word "potato" has a double meaning, one refers to the person who watches TV on the couch all day long as the "potato planted in front of the couch" does not move, and the other refers to the fact that this type of person usually eats potato chips while watching TV.

Calling someone a "couch potato" is usually a criticism of this unhealthy way.

As early as the sixties of the 20th century, the "sofa potato" lifestyle began to be popular in the United States, and later spread throughout the West, and entered the increasingly Westernized Japan and China, which likes to follow the trend, becoming an extremely important "fat-causing factor", which has a serious adverse impact on people's image and health.