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Do we have any idioms for a person who spends too much time on the cellphone?
As we call a person who watches television a lot, a couch potato, or a person who spends large amounts of leisure or working time operating a computer, a mouse potato.
If there is any, I would appreciate your answer.
We usually don't care if a person spends too much time on the phone. Call them
a [smart]phone zombie
a [smart]phone addict
a cellcoholic (a person addicted to cell phone usage)
a nomophobe (I love it, it stands for no-mobile-phone-phobe)
But when we chat with that person and they repeatedly look at their phone (and miss a good part of what we say), it's annoying. We can call them
a phubber (derived from phubbing)
Never heard “mouse potato” before but I like it! I guess you could extend this to “phone potato”? That is not a known expression, though. Probably phone addict is the best phrase for this.
Someone who's always on their phone posting on social media and snap chatting is called a Millennial!!!
Look at that guy on his phone all day he's such a Millennial.
That's a nice alternative for phone addict Millennials are very attached to their phones. Phone addiction is one of their strongest traits.
Millennial:denoting people reaching young adulthood in the early 21st century.
