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Meanings of goldfish bowl in English

A state of affairs in which you have no privacy.

Synonyms
Examples for "fishbowl"
Examples for "fishbowl"
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
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 goldfish bowl in English
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
6
From inside her goldfish bowl, she liked what she saw.
Driving Heat
7
I have a pond-like habitat in a large goldfish bowl.
The Irish Times
8
It looked more like a goldfish bowl filled with murky water than a TV.
Blue noon
9
Worst of all, he appeared to be wearing a goldfish bowl on his head.
The Irish Times
10
Returning to the goldfish bowl of British politics -and all my fans in the media.
The Guardian
11
A goldfish bowl stood on the bedside table, complete with underwater castle apparently without a resident.
The coldest blood
12
What's their theory about the overturned goldfish bowl?
The Case of the Gold-Digger’s Purse
13
Ryan Tubridy gets his Saturday nights back as he takes over the country's favourite goldfish bowl.
The Irish Times
14
Why do you wear a goldfish bowl on your head and make everyone call you Vasily?'
The half life of stars: a novel
15
Ugly views, glaring street lights, nosy neighbours, goldfish bowl-style glass extensions added to next-door properties .
The Irish Times
16
When he fell he had apparently upset the table on which the goldfish bowl had been placed.
The Case of the Gold-Digger’s Purse