Big Brother is watching you



Big Brother is watching you

A phrase taken from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, meaning one's actions and intentions are being monitored by the government as a means of controlling and suppressing the will of the populace. You have to be careful what you write in an email these days. Big Brother is watching you, after all.
See also: big, brother, watch

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
KurtisKUR-tisEnglish
Jasmijnyahs-MIENDutch
VĂN-Vietnamese
WalterWAWL-tər (English), VAHL-ter (German, Polish, Italian)English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Italian, Ancient Germanic
MarikeMAH-ree-kəDutch
Helga['helgə]