My friend told me, “I’m tired! Tonight I’ll just go home and

veg out!” To stay home and not do anything special, especially to just watch TV, a video or Netflix is to “veg out.” It comes from the idea that vegetables don’t have brains to use. “Couch potato” is someone who only watches TV all the time. The expression “veg out” became more popular after it was used by Julia Robert’s character in Pretty Woman, who said “Let’s watch old movies all night... we’ll just veg out in front of the TV.”