Meaning of fish bowl | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small, rounded, transparent, and domestic aquarium.
2. Any place or event that lacks privacy or is intensely scrutinized.
   broadly
3. A variety of discussions where participants are organized in concentric circles and take turns where they and others in the same group are allowed to speak according to a set of rules.
4. The central and smallest circle where the speakers are located in some versions of such a discussion.

Examples

“We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl / Year after year”

“John Hinkle, Outreach Consultant, observing a fishbowl conversation.”

“The fishbowl can assume several configurations. Its most common form is simply an inner ring (Group A), which is the discussion group, surrounded by an outer ring (Group B), which is the observation group”

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