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Meanings of fish bowl in английском

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
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
Usage of fish bowl in английском
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
6
Soldiers here describe working on this base as "sitting in a fish bowl".
Reuters
7
He sat and looked at the fish bowl.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
8
But it was a fish bowl.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
9
The privacy screening that they're proposing is totally inadequate to stop that sense of living in a fish bowl.
Radio NZ
10
The solemn man, standing in the center of the small room before a suspended fish bowl, looked up mildly.
Foundation and Empire
11
The New Yorker, May 19, 1928 P. 81 One gold- fish in our gold- fish bowl View Article
The new yorker
12
Mason said thoughtfully, There was a curved segment of the broken fish bowl that still had a little water left in it.
The Case of the Gold-Digger’s Purse
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I asked them who the devil had put it in their heads to take me around like that, in a fish bowl.
The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes: His Fortunes and Misfortunes as...
14
We're just two lost soulsSwimming in a fish bowl,Year after year,Running over the same old ground.What have we found?The same old fears.
The Irish Times
15
Underneath the caption was an ink drawing of a tiny mermaid in a fish bowl, waving and smiling up from the page.
Independent.ie
16
At the front facing the entrance hall, the walls gave way to glass, so it was something like being in a fish bowl.
Wild Justice