goldfish bowl
noun
Also called: fishbowl
a glass bowl, typically spherical, in which fish are kept as pets
a place or situation open to observation by onlookers
Words nearby goldfish bowl
goldeye,
goldfields,
goldfinch,
goldfinny,
goldfish,
goldfish bowl,
goldflam disease,
goldi,
goldie's fern,
goldilocks,
goldilocks zone
Idioms and Phrases with goldfish bowl
goldfish bowl
A situation affording no privacy, as in Being in a goldfish bowl comes with the senator's job—there's no avoiding it. The glass bowl allowing one to view goldfish from every direction was transferred first, in the 1920s, to a police interrogation room equipped with a one-way mirror. By the mid-1900s the expression was being used more broadly.