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
Aeschylus	ES-kəl-əs (English)	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Galen	GAY-lən	English
Garrison	['gærisn]
Elchin	-	Azerbaijani
Noella	-	French
Bryan	['braiən]