square eyes

square eyes

- Used to describe someone addicted to television.
See also related terms for television.
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If you watch too much TV you'll get square eyes. You've got a face like a slapped .
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TOO much telly is meant give you square eyes, but appears to have turned Gogglebox star Jenny's a different shape altogether.
And the people who delight in the advertising industry most, and the huge expenditure of every citizens' income which it adds to every product, are the people who get cheated regularly, staring with square eyes, at the same repeated nonsense - "98% of those asked, swore that ours was the best".
Despite our square eyes, Britons are among the least likely to watch news and current affairs, with 13 per cent not watching any during the working week.
Instead of warning us that at this rate we'll all end up with square eyes, a new series - Gogglebox - aims to celebrate our obsession with the small screen by hearing from the experts - the ordinary viewers.
YOU'LL get square eyes if you sit too close to that telly!
"The Contagion study suggests that a large majority of the population are still under the illusion that they can, for example, get square eyes from watching too much television, or get better night vision from eating more carrots," Smith said.
However, while there's goodies to be got, the gamer in us is going to get square eyes while we go in search of them.