Путешествие со словом

Later I looked up in “ Abby Lingvo”   dictionary and found eighteen more phrases  with this word:

1. coach bolt – болт с квадратным подголовком;
2. coach car – пассажирский вагон с местами для сидения;
3. coach class – экономический или туристический класс (в самолете);
4. coach fare – пассажирский тариф второго или третьего класса;
5. coach framing – каркас кузова пассажирского вагона;
6. coach heating – отопление пассажирского вагона;
7. coach joint – соединение с отбортовкой кромок;
8. coach lighting – освещение пассажирского вагона;
9. coach operator– компания, занимающаяся междугородними перевозками пассажиров на автобусах;
10. coach screw – шуруп с квадратной головкой;
11. coach traffic – пассажирские перевозки вторым классом;
12. coach yard – парк отстоя пассажирских вагонов;
13. coachmen – 1) кучер; 2) водитель пожарной машины;
14. coach-built – сделанный по особому заказу (о кузове автомобиля);
15. coach-whip – кнут кучера;
16. coach witness – «натасканный» свидетель;
17. coaching – тренировка;
18. coachwhip bird – птица – бич.

Now, when I knew  meanings of this word, I could easily translate sentences with a word “coach”. But by chance in one of American films I heard a phrase:” You are a real coach potato!”

I didn’t know this phrase. “ What does it mean?” I took a dictionary again but didn’t find the  meaning of this phrase. This phrase didn’t let me rest. This time I decided to surf the net. Hooray! On the site “You tube” in the program “Rob the

tutor” I found  out that  “coach potato” is an American idiom and it has two meanings:

1. Coach potato

It is someone, who wants to sit on the coach (американское слово – диван! Ура! Еще одно значение), watch TV and do nothing. He doesn’t need to sit on a sofa, it can be a chair. Sitting around, being lazy, doing nothing, watching TV. It is not bad. For example, you can ask me,

1. Would you like to go out to the zoo today?
2.  Well, I had a hard week, I’ m not interested in going to the zoo, I’m going to stay at home being a coach potato this week.

2. Coach potato

A man doesn’t have a job and his wife looks at him. She says, “You need to stop being such a coach potato and watching TV, doing nothing. You need to get a job. Don’t be a coach potato!

But that’s not all! A new phrase appeared: «coach potato travelling».

1. Coach potato traveling – Travelling on the sofa.

 New traveling agencies have appeared called «Coach potato travel» or «Coach potato traveler».

I’m reality surprised how many Interesting meanings the word coach  has .
I wonder, will I find any more?