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Meanings of fishbowl in anglès

A state of affairs in which you have no privacy.

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Examples for "goldfish bowl"
Examples for "goldfish bowl"
1
Local preference is for a balloon the size of a goldfish bowl.
The Guardian
2
The goldfish and the goldfish bowl and the little canister of goldfish food.
Sympathy for the devil
3
It was like living in a goldfish bowl filled with piranha.
Naughty neighbor
4
Draw away for the long view and there's the kicker: It's a goldfish bowl.
Salem’s Lot
5
Returning to the goldfish bowl and all my friends in the media, he joked.
The Guardian
1
A severed head in a fish bowl stared straight ahead without blinking.
The Pilo Family Circus
2
There was a fish bowl with a castle and two turtles in it.
Cat’s Cradle
3
Women feel like they're in a fish bowl, being watched and even isolated.
Radio NZ
4
Football in England is a fish bowl and you have to deal with it.
The Guardian
5
She went to the fish bowl in the corner.
Humanistic Nursing
Usage of fishbowl in anglès
1
And come to think of it, in the Manhattan fishbowl in general.
The lost girls: three friends. four continents. one unconvention...
2
Her voice sounded tinny and tired in the earphones of my fishbowl.
A Spaceship Named McGuire
3
Both cohorts believed the fishbowl format allowed them to be actively involved.
Pubmed
4
How can you ask me to live in that kind of fishbowl?
Flesh and bone: a body farm novel
5
To the other lost soul swimming in the fishbowl...You know the rest.
Chosen: a novel
6
A fishbowl sat on a small gate-leg table below a gingham-curtained window.
Bones Are Forever
7
On entering the fishbowl, he remained standing in front of her desk.
A warrior's life: a biography of paulo coelho
8
When the officers inside the security fishbowl passed a temporary I.D.
Eye of vengeance
9
Still without looking at her, he dropped it in the fishbowl.
Mad enough to marry
10
Lakshmi hesitated, so I pushed the shotgun muzzle right up against her fishbowl.
Red Planet Blues
11
Finally, I took off my fishbowl and stepped into the companionway.
A Spaceship Named McGuire
12
Beside the desk was the big fishbowl display window that Mendonza had described.
Devil's keep
13
An overlarge, empty glass fishbowl sat on the booth's narrow countertop.
Mad enough to marry
14
The light bent around her, making a fishbowl of the speakeasy.
Heart of stone
15
It's life in a fishbowl, and that's no way to raise a kid.
The next to die
16
She undogged then pulled off her fishbowl and shook out her glorious hair.
Red Planet Blues
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