fish bowl
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1.4
- noun
- /fɪʃ boʊl/
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pecera
- Of course, they are inside a fish bowl, and so we know that while they are able to do whatever they like inside that bowl, they are limited to the fish bowl.
I had two fish bowls in my room.
- I had two fish bowls in my room.
Examples
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I, I, I, I've abandoned it lately, but I had two fish bowls in my room.
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I had two fish bowls in my room.
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Imagine a fish bowl and the bottom of that fish bowl is where you guys are based out of and it's a Cobb right.
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The other night the water froze in the fish bowl, so my goldfish is dead.
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But watching Midas watch him indulge in one of his feasts, Bob felt pangs of guilt and always went to shake a few more crumbs into the fish bowl.
Fiction book (2001) -
I bought a beautiful little fish bowl to keep my new goldfish in.
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After feeding the fish, I noticed the fish bowl was starting to get dirty.
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Every morning, I check the fish bowl to see if my fish are healthy.
Synonyms
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1.0
A round deep dish with an open top used to hold food or liquid
115
2.7
A tank of water for keeping fish and water plants
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1.5
A glass box that holds water for keeping live fish
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2.5
A round glass bowl for keeping small pet fish
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3.0
A round clear glass container used to keep small pet fish
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The sociological sense arises directly from the literal image of fish in a bowl being visible to everyone; a learner who knows 'fish' and 'bowl' can easily map that image onto a situation with little privacy. Although metaphorical, the mapping is straightforward and cross-linguistically accessible, so the meaning is immediately inferable from the constituents.
Etymology
Fish bowl is the name for a clear, round glass container for small pet fish, and the strong image of fish swimming in a bowl you can always see makes the name easy to remember.