live in a fishbowl (also: live in a goldfish bowl)—have absolutely no privacy:
- Life on campus can be like living in a fishbowl. Everyone knows what everyone else is doing.
live in a glass house—be particularly vulnerable to criticism (with reference to the proverb “he who lives in a glass house shouldn’t throw stones”):
- Before we criticize, we should ask, “What role did I play in creating the condition that I choose to criticize?” …We all live in glass houses. Let’s take care in deciding when and how we throw stones.