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A tiny round prison where privacy goes to be watched swimming in circles.
means A small round glass bowl for keeping fish, or by extension any situation where you're constantly watched and have nowhere to hide.
from A straightforward compound of 'fish' and 'bowl,' first describing the curved glass vessel itself. The figurative sense — a life or workplace with no privacy — grew naturally from the image of a fish visible from every angle, with no corner to hide in, swimming in plain sight of whoever walks by.
- actual cruelty
- bowls distort vision, causing fish chronic stress
- memory myth
- fish remember months, not three seconds
- idiom use
- means total visibility, zero hiding spots
- better home
- vets recommend filtered tanks, never bare bowls