Big Brother is watching you

1. A warning that appears on posters throughout Oceania, the fictional dictatorship described by George Orwell in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The term Big Brother is used to refer to any ruler or government that invades the privacy of its citizens.

Example Sentences

Olesya has a striking image tattooed on her right leg - Russian President Vladimir Putin depicted as a spider, with an Orwellian inscription: "Big Brother is watching you."

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The Stanford Review, the university’s conservative publication, sought to include as many of the disfavored terms as possible in a Monday post, titled “Big Brother is Watching You: Stanford’s New ‘Harmful Language’ Guide.”

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“You think Big Brother is watching you on the subway?”

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“You think Big Brother is watching you on the subways? You’re absolutely right. Smile, you’re on camera,” Ms. Hochul said at a press conference announcing the upgrades.

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He was referencing the dystopian novel by George Orwell about a society where “Big Brother is watching you” and the “Thought Police” monitor the ideas in people’s minds.

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