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Definition of fishbowl in English: fishbowlnounˈfɪʃbəʊlˈfɪʃˌboʊl A round glass bowl for keeping pet fish in. Example sentencesExamples - He compares our bodies to that of a fish in a fishbowl.
- The hostess double-takes at the sight of a panda and large, muscle-bound man in a suit and tie carrying a lobster in a fishbowl.
- When I get to the house, the fishbowl on the porch is empty.
- Sat perfectly still inside the fishbowl was a small aquarium dweller.
- Indeed as you turn your head from side to side, the 3D images appear to bow out to you like a true three-dimensional fishbowl.
Definition of fishbowl in US English: fishbowlnounˈfɪʃˌboʊlˈfiSHˌbōl 1A round glass bowl for keeping pet fish in. Example sentencesExamples - Indeed as you turn your head from side to side, the 3D images appear to bow out to you like a true three-dimensional fishbowl.
- Sat perfectly still inside the fishbowl was a small aquarium dweller.
- The hostess double-takes at the sight of a panda and large, muscle-bound man in a suit and tie carrying a lobster in a fishbowl.
- When I get to the house, the fishbowl on the porch is empty.
- He compares our bodies to that of a fish in a fishbowl.
- 1.1US A place open to public view and criticism.
there was no privacy in his office; it was a fishbowl Example sentencesExamples - I hated what it had become, a fishbowl for TV journalists who wanted to pontificate about the unknown poor in the city.
- I think one of the things that I learned from politics is that you really have to open up your life and live in a fishbowl to be an elected official.
- The chef will be in the TV fishbowl as cameras chronicle life in the kitchens and in the dining room.
- There is a distinct similarity between the two men, both of whom spent a brief period atop golf's World Ranking, neither of whom has grown accustomed to life in golf's fishbowl.
- And the downside of fame is that ‘you're always in the fishbowl, so have to be aware of what you're doing.’
- I'm thinking in particular of people in high and not-so-high places in the Bahamas that used to hide behind curtains and anonymity and now the curtain has been drawn and they are in a fishbowl.
- Are you willing to lead by example in everything you do - to live in a fishbowl with your personal and professional life open to view?
- When I feel I've had too much press or I'm in a fishbowl I just go home.
- Now, he's going to the biggest fishbowl in sports, where the rabid New York tabloid papers and sports talk radio will dissect everything he says and does.
- To add insult to injury, the citizens will fund the very system that will reduce their lives to a transparent fishbowl.
- We're a little bit more used to the media ties, the environment in which we live and the necessity of operating in kind of a media fishbowl all the time.
- One of the original ideas behind the Wrestling site was to include a blog, thus allowing the public a look into our glorious fishbowl.
- But from outside the fishbowl, it just reinforces the impression that nothing they say can be taken at face value.
- Working with Madonna is like working in a fishbowl: the whole world is watching.
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