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UK
/fˈɪʃbəʊl/
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[ US /ˈfɪʃˌboʊɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪʃˌboʊɫ/ ]
NOUN
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a state of affairs in which you have no privacy
the president lives in a goldfish bowl - a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept
How To Use fishbowl In A Sentence
- The diamond ring was soused into the fishbowl of water.
- They were hard suits, rigid pieces shaped to slide over one another, with a fishbowl helmet. THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
- But when you took taxpayer money you moved into a fishbowl. Now everyone is rightly watching your every move from every side," he said.
- Living in a fishbowl is a weird thing, even when you’re too little to really know what’s going on. Reading Notes « Tales from the Reading Room
- Compared to Brookways, a fishbowl is a mountain retreat. You Live Once
- His fishbowl universe of prissy suburban breeders, casually sadistic office bosses, and zoophilic outcasts might turn [Molly] Shannon's administrative assistant a touch irritable at the midway point, but, unlike Solondz's, White's humor isn't merciless. GreenCine Daily: Year of the Dog.
- Success and the environment — (1) A tropical fish placed in a fishbowl will only grow three inches long; placed in a pond, it can grow quite large.
- He compares our bodies to that of a fish in a fishbowl.
- Beck was also a proficient hypnotist, prestidigitator, chemist and roboticist, wearing a fishbowl, one-way plexiglass helmet, with gas jets mounted in his gloves and boots capable of emitting hallucinogenic, 'web' dissolving gases. Archive 2006-07-01
- A plan has been unveiled for a "fishbowl" - like by Valerie Conners | 10.13.08 | 3: 42 PM ET World Hum