Definition of fishbowl
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:a bowl for the keeping of live fish
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:a place or condition that affords no privacy
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Examples of fishbowl in a Sentence
Being a politician these days means living in a fishbowl—every part of your life is open to public view.
Recent Examples of fishbowl from the Web
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The adults in the Carlson party all had crazy straws stuck into a Dunk Tank, a $29 fishbowl drink made for sharing that combines Bacardi Black, Bacardi Coconut, Bacardi Silver, Bols Amaretto and fruit juices.
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True to its name, Wet Cash culminates with one lucky audience member being presented with a wad of bills that have been stewing in a fishbowl during the hourlong stand-up show.
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Unlike Schultz, whose shadow managing went largely undetected, Kalanick lives in the tech world fishbowl and his every interaction will quickly leak, given all the recent and impending unhappy departures at Uber.
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Specials on brews, fishbowl cocktails, bar snacks. $1 from each Shark Week cocktail donated to Newport Aquarium’s Wave Foundation.
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Rousteing’s muse, Kim Kardashian, was the queen of the night, dressed in a bra top and clinging skirt, and struggling to walk even a step through the fishbowl of fans looking to take selfies with her.
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Whether creators and posters are sharing clear slime, fluffy slime, charm slime, floam, fishbowl slime, or any other number of slime variants, slime is clearly a Thing, and so naturally, many of the folks who make these videos are cashing in.
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Among them lay Sami’s shattered fishbowl and Sami, dead among the shards of glass.
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The fishbowl situation along with increasingly lackluster performance on the court sent him into a tailspin.
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First Known Use of fishbowl
1906
FISHBOWL Defined for English Language Learners
fishbowl
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Definition of fishbowl for English Language Learners
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: a bowl used for keeping live fish
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: a place or condition in which there is no privacy
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