goldfish bowl

1. 1.

   a state of affairs in which you have no privacy

   “the president lives in a goldfish bowl”

   Synonymsfish bowlfishbowl

   Broadersituation
2. 2.

   a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept

   Synonymsfishbowlfish bowl

   Broaderbowlaquarium

Questions about goldfish bowl

What does goldfish bowl mean?

goldfish bowl means "a state of affairs in which you have no privacy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for goldfish bowl?

Close synonyms include fish bowl, fishbowl, fishbowl, fish bowl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is goldfish bowl a common word?

goldfish bowl is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.