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goldfish bowl

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.
See also: bowl, goldfish

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
ShawnaSHAW-nəEnglish
ŞIrin-Kurdish
Annunziataahn-noon-TSYAH-tahItalian
Haizea-Basque
Borisu-Medieval Slavic
IshtarISH-tahr (English)Near Eastern Mythology
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