on the couch en · ADP
Etymology
From the trope of a mental health patient lying down on a couch before a therapist or psychologist.
Meanings
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Undergoing psychological therapy or analysis.
French: Did that background growing up in the American West, your time serving as a judge in the West, did that inform your approach to administrative law and your approach to these labyrinth of laws? / Gorsuch: David, I don’t know. I can’t put myself on the couch. I don’t know.
2024 August 4, David French, “‘I Just Have Some Questions’: An Interview With Justice Gorsuch”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2024: