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goldfish bowl noun1A spherical glass container for goldfish.She had run fresh water into a goldfish bowl, the bowl itself in the form of a large fish....- It's really hard getting through your 20s when you're living in a goldfish bowl.
- Scotland is really a big goldfish bowl and eventually you deal with someone who knows another client.
1.1A place or situation lacking privacy: she was tired of the travel and tired of living in a goldfish bowl...- Several days later, Fred arrives in New York and promptly falls into a waiting goldfish bowl of publicity.
- She was one of 10,000 people who sent off video audition tapes hoping they would stand out from the crowd and be offered the chance of spending up to ten weeks in a human goldfish bowl.
- Words are always meaningful in Peter Gabriel's work, and here he relates his fears and concerns, along with acerbic glimpses at the way we live and, in particular, the goldfish bowl of the media.
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