| goldfish bowl | |
noun | |
| 1. | a state of affairs in which you have no privacy; "the president lives in a goldfish bowl" |
| 2. | a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept [syn: fishbowl] |
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.