| 单词 | goldfish bowl |
| 释义 | goldfish bowlnounAlso 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 bowlgoldfields, gold-filled, goldfinch, goldfinny, goldfish, goldfish bowl, gold fixing, Goldflam disease, gold foil, gold, frankincense, and myrrh, gold, golden 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 Idioms and Phrases with goldfish bowlgoldfish 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. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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