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fishbowl

[ UK /fˈɪʃbə‍ʊl/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪʃˌboʊɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a state of affairs in which you have no privacy
    the president lives in a goldfish bowl
  2. 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
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