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goldfish bowl

noun

  1. Also called: fishbowl.a glass bowl, typically spherical, in which fish are kept as pets

  2. a place or situation open to observation by onlookers

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

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.
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Uploaded by a fan, it's illustrated by a drawing of a girl with her head in an upturned goldfish bowl.

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"We know what the goldfish bowl is like in Glasgow and when you don't have a good performance, you're the worst in the world."

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Evans, who has spoken openly about his mental health struggles said three-time champion Jones taught him a lot about being in the "goldfish bowl".

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But being in a goldfish bowl can also have the opposite effect, as demonstrated in a scene in a huge Texas steakhouse where the friends stop off for dinner.

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England have remained relaxed despite being in the goldfish bowl.

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