goldfish bowl

Definitions

1. A transparent bowl in which pet fish are kept.
2. Any place that lacks privacy, especially a room with a large window facing a public area.
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Examples

“It seemed only a moment after Tom had decided that Sara must tell⟳ the truth that Alice came into the sitting-room to find⟳ the goldfish bowl broken in a thousand pieces and the gasping fish⟳ beating themselves on the floor.”

“"Because East Midlands Railway's HQ is here in Derby, we're rather in a goldfish bowl... and now there's the announcement that Derby will be the Great British Railway headquarters, so the goldfish bowl is about to get⟳ a whole lot bigger," he says.”

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