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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Perhaps a coach potato is a couch potato who pretends to advise the teams and players while he watches his televised sports. Quite common. Examples:
She works with a variety of people, from coach potatoes to elite athletes.
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Athletes or coach potatoes or some cross-sectional representation of society (which would be heavily skewed towards coach potatoes). ...
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They think that it’s better to be coach-potatoes but coach-potatoes have a lot of problems with their health, especially with their heart.
www.english.gopoint.ru/2008-09-27-08…/74-irina.html
The July 4th weekend means fireworks, family and friends, barbecues and, for the coach potatoes among us, lots of good TV-watchin’.
www.tvsquad.com/2009/07/02/july-4th-weekend-tv-picks
Olympics can motivate coach potatoes.
www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=upiUPI … 01-1266…
New drug could encourage coach potatoes to get moving.
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This one hits close to home during the World Cup. My Brazilo-Italian friend confuses “couch” and “coach” irremediably. I always assumed it was a confusion with coach seats or with a carriage of some sort.
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Nice find, Ken – definitely low hanging fruit. And I bet there are other variations still out there. Crouch potatoes, for instance, are people who just crouch on their sofas and sit staring at the TV. This is pretty strongly a regionalism – most of the citations below were written by people living in Singapore or Malaysia, though I did find one from a fellow Californian (not included here). “A crouch potato†gets over 80 ughits, so there have to be many more out there if you drop the article or use a plural. Examples:
Or you happen to be a crouch potato that prefers watching the matches from the comfort of your drawing room?
http://www.pavtube.com/2010-world-cup/a … vtube.html
She appreciates spending time purposefully, whether it is with her family, meeting up with some of her closest friends or even hibernating at home; and she also takes pleasure in being a crouch potato at home watching a good comedy, an inspirational movie, a documentary or even a good cartoon just to “wind down†(plus all the chocolates and tidbits).
http://www.evangel.org.sg/staff/rita.html
Some of us upon reaching the office, will sit down and be glued to the chair like a crouch potato until the office hour is over.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/enjoy- … njoy+work/
Face it. There’s a crouch potato lurking in everyone of us.
http://www.singaporeaninlondon.com/2009 … nline.html
For your information, I have been a crouch potato for two months and I can really get used to living like this..
http://twozerofiveseven.blogspot.com/20 … chive.html
There are also dozens of hits for “grouch potato,†but most of those are either puns or they’re referring to something slightly different – a person who sits around sulking or complaining.
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