goldfish bowl

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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Terrence	TER-ənts	English
Augustin	[ɔ:'gʌstin]
MÜMtaz	-	Turkish
Matej	-	Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian
QuÂN	-	Vietnamese
Elisabete	ə-lee-zə-BET	Portuguese