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
Nigul	-	Estonian
A&Eth;Alsteinn	-	Icelandic, Ancient Scandinavian
Lucila	-	Spanish
Phrixos	-	Greek Mythology
Elma	['elmə]
Banu	-	Persian, Turkish