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Goldfish bowl

//ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ ˈboʊl// noun

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  1. 1
    A transparent bowl in which pet fish are kept.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept wordnet
  3. 3
    Any place that lacks privacy, especially a room with a large window facing a public area. broadly

    ""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."

  4. 4
    a state of affairs in which you have no privacy wordnet

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