I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
couch potato
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
casting
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The casting couch , they called it.
■ NOUN
potato
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The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato .
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In many cases, Olympian designs serve as the basis for apparel that the average couch potato will be able to buy.
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And nomatterhow fit you are, you're just as susceptible to the same long-term damage as the average couch potato .
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Tired of watching the Grammy Awards as a couch potato ?
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Skol's sales were up by 4%, thanks largely to demand from couch potatoes .
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Nope, we jaded couch potatoes are demanding more.
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No more nonstop basketball for couch potato Congressional staff members.
■ VERB
lie
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Ten days later, David lay on the battered couch in Laura's consulting room.
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Like the stomach surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down on the couch .
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He smiled contentedly and lay back on the couch .
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She was lying on the couch , relaxing, happy to be back with Mel, and working again.
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I've cried a lot while lying on that couch and find that the act of crying is a cathartic release.
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He undressed, took a Seconal, lay down on the couch .
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The most likely source of ignition lay under Grissom's couch where bundles of wires ran across the floor of the capsule.
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The man had hurt his leg, and was lying on the couch in a corner.
sit
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He sat on the chintz-covered couch to the side of the fireplace and, leaning his head back, looked about him.
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Most nights we sat together on the couch .
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Gav and Janice sat on the couch , loosely attired in dressing gowns and watching a video.
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You mean we could have just sat on the couch and watched reruns to get the same level of cultural snobbery?
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Jamie came in and sat on the couch next to my chair.
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Mandy rushed over, and made her sit down on the couch .
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He sat back on a couch and shared a story that epitomizes his stature outside of California.
sitting
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BTina, 27, is sitting on a velour couch in her Long Beach apartment.
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Instead, I was sitting on my couch examining baseball cards and looking them up in the encyclopedia.
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Its lobby was crowded, people discouraged by the weather sitting on fat couches or standing in talkative groups.
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Clarisa was sitting on the couch , leaning forward as she played a boxy wooden harp.
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His eyes were glued to the two men now sitting on his couch .
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They were sitting on the couch , both crying.
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Most of the people in the front room were sitting on couches or beanbags.
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Sandie, sitting on the couch , looks down at her feet.
sleep
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They both went to bed but Stephen was restless and said he wanted to sleep on the couch .
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We slept on couches or on the floor.
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After that I slept on a couch in the parlor.
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Janir brushed his teeth and got into his sleeping bag on the couch .
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He had been living out of his car and sleeping on a couch in the lounge of his old dormitory.
watch
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You mean we could have just sat on the couch and watched reruns to get the same level of cultural snobbery?
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Norm and Benjy were on the couch watching television.
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Dodge, an old man, sits on a couch drinking whiskey and watching television.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the casting couch
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After 20 years on the couch , Richard is finally giving up therapy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A television set was placed at the end of the purple couch , right at arm level.
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Benjy pushed the cushions back on to the couch .
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He staggered round the rear of the couch , feet crunching in plaster, and sat down.
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The couch has been recently reupholstered.
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The bed has been removed; so has the couch .
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We bounced, as did the couches.
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With the arm resting on the couch the force needed to accelerate the arm is coming from the material of the couch.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
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At worst a vague objective should be couched in very precise terms.
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Most discussions of the chronology of specific artefacts, or artefact-types, of the period are couched in predictably vague terms.
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But many statutory duties are couched in quite vague terms which leave it unclear what the duty-bearer must do in concrete situations.
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Perhaps it is beyond their intellectual grasp; or maybe the language it is couched in is too complex.
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First, they are couched in extremely general terms.
■ NOUN
language
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The Declaration of Rights itself was couched in the language of political conservatism.
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The language of the Bible is couched in the language of the first century.
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Emily Pfeiffer's case for women's education, for example, was couched in language that would appease social Darwinists.
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It was all couched in very discreet language , the words never inflammatory.
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It was also couched in language designed to satisfy or at least not to alarm a multitude of constituencies at home.
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But suppose that these ideas are couched in the language of parable and theology as most believe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was also couched in language designed to satisfy or at least not to alarm a multitude of constituencies at home.
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Reporters could not attend meetings, press releases were couched in generalities and favoured the conservative line.
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The answer to this question needs to be couched as much in curriculum terms as in assessment terms.
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The Declaration of Rights itself was couched in the language of political conservatism.
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The language of the Bible is couched in the language of the first century.
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While the description of the problem is couched in literary terms, hypotheses ought to be couched in operational terms.