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a horizontal commitment device that turns intentions into naps with terrifying efficiency
means A long, upholstered piece of furniture for sitting or lying down, typically seating several people.
from From Old French 'couche,' a bed or resting place, from the verb 'coucher,' to lay down or put to bed — itself from Latin 'collocare,' to place together (the same root that gives us 'collocate'). So at its core a couch is simply something you lay yourself down upon, which the furniture has been quietly fulfilling ever since.
- lost treasure
- Americans find hundreds of millions in coins under cushions yearly
- word origin
- From French coucher, to lie down
- famous therapy
- Freud's patients reclined; he sat behind, unseen
- escape risk
- Couches stuck in doorways are a moving-day legend
- potato lineage
- Couch potato entered dictionaries in the 1990s
freud's couch — the vienna psychoanalyst's famous furniture where patients reclined during therapy, now in the freud museum
designer couch from friends — the orange couch featured in the tv show's central perk café, became an iconic 1990s furniture reference