goldfish bowl

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goldfish bowl

/ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ ˈboʊl/

noun goldfish bowls

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.
Similar: fish bowl
broadly, figuratively Any place that lacks privacy, especially a room with a large window facing a public area. "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.
Similar: fish bowl

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noun bowl in which fish are kept

日本語	金魚鉢 kingyobachi
Deutsch	Goldfischglas

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@misc{goldfish_bowl_2026,
  title = {goldfish bowl},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/goldfish%20bowl},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}