casting couch
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7.7
- noun
- /ˈkæstɪŋ kaʊtʃ/
- Offensive
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práctica de exigir favores sexuales a cambio de trabajo (ofensivo)
- The documentary revealed the dark side of the entertainment industry, focusing on the issue of the casting couch.
- the casting couch in Hollywood
It's the film world casting couch.
- It's the film world casting couch.
Examples
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The basement is set up with a casting couch.
Fiction book (2002) -
The proof is on the casting couch.
Blog text (32) -
With a great big casting couch -
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Was it a real casting couch thing?
Fiction book (1990) -
Hollywood has built itself on that casting couch and on keeping people silent.
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Scotty, where's my casting couch?
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But it's typically the porn villain is the man who's, I don't know, running the casting couch or extorting women for sex.
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Many aspiring actresses have stories about their experiences with the casting couch during auditions.
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She decided to leave the industry after facing the harsh reality of the casting couch.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
casting + couch
While the constituents 'casting' (selecting actors) and 'couch' (a piece of furniture) are individually transparent, their combination does not directly yield the specialized idiomatic sense of sexual favors exchanged for roles. A B1 learner might guess a literal couch used in casting contexts but would not reliably infer the exploitative/sexual quid-pro-quo meaning without prior exposure, so the expression is only partly predictable.
Etymology
Casting couch comes from the literal image of a couch in casting rooms where some directors or producers would ask actors for sex in return for roles. So today casting couch means 'asking for sex in exchange for jobs' in the entertainment world.