What does the idiom, he is a couch potato mean?

This idiom means, someone who spends little or no time exercising and a great deal of time watching television.

Explanation:

This idiom is supposed to have originated in the 1970's in America by a comic artist who drew two idle and inactive characters, who he called "Couch Potatoes."

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