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couch doctor
a psychoanalyst who puts his patients on a couch He was sent to see a couch doctor after his continued problems at work.
couch potato
someone who spends too much time watching TV.
couch surf
to sleep on different friends' couches each night because you are a homeless college student:"Hey man, where you stayin? Dude, I'm couch surfing right now."
a couch-potato
someone who never goes out or exercises: "He watches TV all day - what a couch-potato!"
couch case|case|couch
n.,
slang,
informal A person judged emotionally so disturbed that people think he ought to see a psychiatrist (who, habitually, make their patients lie down on a couch).
Joe's divorce messed him up so badly that he became a couch case.
couch doctor|couch|doctor
n.,
slang,
colloquial A psychoanalyst who puts his patients on a couch following the practice established by Sigmund Freud.
I didn't know your husband was a couch doctor, I thought he was a gynecologist!
couch potato|couch|potato
n. A person who is addicted to watching television all day.
Poor Ted has become such a couch potato that we can't persuade him to do anything.
couch
couch on the couch â
Informal undergoing psychoanalysis
the casting couch
A abnormality in which -to-be advisers (typically females) are propositioned for animal favors in barter for promised application or career advancement. The convenance is best associated with the ball industry, and the appellation refers to the absolute allotment of appliance in a casting director's appointment area such encounters may occur. According to abounding accounts, the casting couch is animate and able-bodied in Hollywood.Learn more: casting, couchthe ˈcasting couch
(informal, humorous) acclimated to accredit to a bearings in which somebody, abnormally a woman, agrees to accept sex with somebody abroad in adjustment to get assignment in a film/movie, TV programme, etc: the Hollywood casting couch for starletsLearn more: casting, couchcasting couch
n. a allegorical couch begin in the offices of casting admiral for use in absorbing adolescent bodies by alms them roles. They say the administrator got his job on the casting couch, too. Learn more: casting, couch