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Idiom: Glued to something
They used to say that TV was a mother’s best friend.
Back in the day, how many Saturday mornings were mothers able to accomplish something while their children were glued to the TV watching cartoons?
When you are glued to something, you pay close attention to it.
It’s sort of the reverse of achieving a state of flow.
When you have flow, the information flows out of you, whereas when you are glued to something such as the TV, a book, or a movie, the information flows into you.
Immediately before writing this, I was glued to my computer screen, watching game seven of the first-round playoff series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and New York Rangers.
Unfortunately, the Rangers won 4-3 in overtime.
These days many Canadians are glued to a screen of one size or another, watching ice hockey.
Hockey is our national pastime, and it’s the playoffs, baby!
One of the challenges of running a media company these days is creating must-see content that will glue viewers to their screens.
Remember watching Friends on TV when it was the thing to do?
Back then, people were glued to TV screens, watching to see if Ross and Rachael would hook up.
More recently, Game of Thrones had me glued to the screen.
I spent so many hours watching that series, but I couldn’t peel myself away from it.
How about you?
Is there any show or sporting event that has you glued to the screen?
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 73.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.