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goldfish bowl
noun
- Also calledfishbowl a glass bowl, typically spherical, in which fish are kept as pets
- a place or situation open to observation by onlookers
Idioms and Phrases
A situation affording no privacy, as in Being in a goldfish bowl comes with the senator's job—there's no avoiding it . The glass bowl allowing one to view goldfish from every direction was transferred first, in the 1920s, to a police interrogation room equipped with a one-way mirror. By the mid-1900s the expression was being used more broadly.Example Sentences
But being in a goldfish bowl can also have the opposite effect, as demonstrated in a scene in a huge Texas steakhouse where the friends stop off for dinner.
England have remained relaxed despite being in the goldfish bowl.
This mercurial talent retired when he was only 27 years-old, likening the pressure of carrying the hopes of a rugby-obsessed nation to "living in a goldfish bowl".
“It’s understandable that Prince Harry chose to leave and pursue a private life. What happens if Prince George thinks that Uncle Harry was right and it’s not worth living in a goldfish bowl? What then?”
Time out of Wales might also help the squad from having to cope with what Owens describes as the "goldfish bowl of Welsh rugby".
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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