fishbowl
or fish bowl
a glass bowl for goldfish, snails, etc.
a place, job, or condition in which one's activities are open to public view or scrutiny.
Origin of fishbowl
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How to use fishbowl in a sentence
You stuck with me when I didn’t really know what I was doing, and I grew up in this fishbowl.
Lighting the way: an interview with singer Janis Ian | Gregg Shapiro | January 20, 2022 | Washington BladeThen the pandemic exiled almost all of teenage social life to that online fishbowl.
I physically felt like I was in a fishbowl, and I was sitting on the couch with one of my best friends and Julie Fucking Andrews.
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill on ‘22 Jump Street,’ Penis Kissing, and Julie Andrews’s Boobs | Kevin Fallon | June 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe simply doesn't want to live her life in that fishbowl, and who can blame her?
Cressida Takes Compassionate Leave From Work As Harry Hordes Descend on Memphis | Tom Sykes | May 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTReporters call it "the fishbowl": the building is curved, and the entire area is fronted by glass.
Within the political fishbowl, Alicia is under as much scrutiny as Carrie, in a way.
‘Homeland’ and ‘The Good Wife’ Season Premieres: Review | Jace Lacob | September 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe first of those questions is a matter of personal fascination over the ability to keep secrets in a fishbowl environment.
He clamped his fishbowl on tight, opened the door, and sprinted toward Corridor C.
The Bramble Bush | Gordon Randall GarrettDe Hooch kept on running, his breath rasping loudly in the confines of the fishbowl helmet.
The Bramble Bush | Gordon Randall GarrettI reached down to the neck-fastenings on the fishbowl, and McCann finally moved.
The Risk Profession | Donald Edwin WestlakeThere were no walls, just the rounded dome like a fishbowl turned upside down on him.
The Secret of the Ninth Planet | Donald Allen WollheimI'd noticed a smeared spot about nose-level on the faceplate of my fishbowl, and now was as good a time as any to get rid of it.
The Risk Profession | Donald Edwin Westlake
British Dictionary definitions for fishbowl
/ (ˈfɪʃˌbəʊl) /
another name for goldfish bowl
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