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Definition of Goldfish bowl
1. Noun. A state of affairs in which you have no privacy. "The president lives in a goldfish bowl"
2. Noun. A transparent bowl in which small fish are kept.
Definition of Goldfish bowl
1. Noun. a transparent bowl in which fish are kept in a domestic environment. ¹
2. Noun. (context: by extension) any place that lacks privacy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goldfish Bowl
Literary usage of Goldfish bowl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"Am Hist R 30:801-12 Jl '15 Goldfish goldfish bowl. E. Vaine. Woman's HC 42:30
N '15 Goldman, Charles Sydney, 1868- General Sir John French. ..."
2. My Path Through Life by Lilli Lehmann (1914)
"... took her daily nap on the bullfinch's cage, without ever being overcome again
by lust for the chase. She drank, by preference, out of the goldfish bowl, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"There was an enclosed sun porch; that was pleasant; but only the trite old simile
of the goldfish bowl described it for privacy, with the next apartment ..."
4. The Spell of Japan by Isabel Anderson (1914)
"Many humans live in a world not very much larger than a goldfish's bowl, and
never try to get out at all! Of an evening one heard the notes of the samisen, ..."
5. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by [Anonymus AC02789944] (1921)
"Hootch Hound. Met. Sept. (23.) UNDERBILL, RUTH MURRAY. (See 1917, 1918.)
goldfish bowl. LHJ Aug, (3o.) UNDERWOOD, EDNA WORTHLEY. (1873- .) "Orchid of Asia. ..."
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