{"id":238947,"date":"2017-03-31T15:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T15:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/gsi_study_guides\/ielts-idiom-couch-potato\/"},"modified":"2017-03-31T15:42:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T15:42:33","slug":"ielts-idiom-couch-potato","status":"publish","type":"gsi_study_guides","link":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/study-in-uk\/study-guides\/ielts-idiom-couch-potato\/","title":{"rendered":"IELTS idiom of the week: Couch Potato"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h2>Idiom: 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>Couch potato idiom example<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A:<\/strong>&nbsp;Come on, let&rsquo;s go to the shops.<\/li>\n<li><strong>B:<\/strong>&nbsp;No, I don&rsquo;t feel like it. I&rsquo;ll just stay here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A:<\/strong>&nbsp;Oh come on. You haven&rsquo;t moved from the sofa all day, you&rsquo;re becoming a real couch potato.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Couch potato&nbsp;IELTS example<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Question:<\/strong>&nbsp;Do you do anything to stay in shape?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Answer:<\/strong>&nbsp;Not really. I play football with my friends sometimes, but I prefer to stay in. I&rsquo;m a bit of a couch potato I suppose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Study IELTS in London or Manchester<\/h2>\n<p>Do you want to improve your English and study cheap and flexible part-time IELTS classes in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/study-in-uk\/language-prep\">London<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/study-in-uk\/language-prep\">Manchester<\/a>? Visit our Language Centre today to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"study-guide-destinations":[24],"study-guide-canada-categories":[],"study-guide-australia-categories":[],"study-guide-usa-categories":[],"study-guide-uk-categories":[40],"study-guide-nz-categories":[],"study-guide-ireland-categories":[],"class_list":["post-238947","gsi_study_guides","type-gsi_study_guides","status-publish","hentry","study-guide-destinations-study-in-uk","study-guide-uk-categories-ielts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gsi_study_guides\/238947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gsi_study_guides"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gsi_study_guides"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"study-guide-destinations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-destinations?post=238947"},{"taxonomy":"study-guide-canada-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-canada-categories?post=238947"},{"taxonomy":"study-guide-australia-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-australia-categories?post=238947"},{"taxonomy":"study-guide-usa-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-usa-categories?post=238947"},{"taxonomy":"study-guide-uk-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-uk-categories?post=238947"},{"taxonomy":"study-guide-nz-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-nz-categories?post=238947"},{"taxonomy":"study-guide-ireland-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-ireland-categories?post=238947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}