Eyes supposedly affected by excessive television viewing:he watched so much TV he’d got square eyes...
And because my viewing time was rationed in case I got square eyes, TV was exotic.
What with the NatWest one day matches between England and Australia and Bangladesh during the day, plus another Lions match, I finished the weekend with square eyes from watching too much TV.
Expect me to soon have very square eyes - there's a LOT to watch!
Derivatives
square-eyed
/ˌskwɛːrˈʌɪd /adjective...
The day after the 1997 general election, square-eyed workers asked colleagues the question that would come to symbolise the Tory rout: ‘Were you still up for Portillo?’
A week of square-eyed, sofa-ridden inertia passed by, and you began to wonder if there were not substantially more rewarding activities to pursue when compared to watching this stuff.
Smith will be square-eyed by now from watching the video of that game