goldfish

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That being a start-up is like being a goldfish in a sharktank.

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A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of goldfish gathered in one view.

noun

A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.

noun

A small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish.

noun

(figuratively, informal) A person with an unreliable memory.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for goldfish.

noun

A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.

noun

A small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish.

noun

(figuratively, informal) A person with an unreliable memory.

noun

Nonstandard form of Goldfish (“a small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish”). [A small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish.]

Example sentences

That being a start-up is like being a goldfish in a sharktank.

This is not so much the trajectory of a goldfish in a bowl as one being flushed down the toilet.

You don’t spend a whole lot of time hanging out reading books with your goldfish.

Induced demand shows that cars, like goldfish, always grow to fill the space they're given.

I see that my goldfish analogy is not quite complete - your revolutions are getting faster and tighter.

But if we're shown alternates (was it a goldfish or a watch?), we would instantly recognize the item.

It is said that for a goldfish, each turn around its bowl is a new experience, because it remembers nothing of its previous circuits.

I once tried to find out on Wikipedia whether goldfish really have ten second attention spans.

Would you please go back and find out about the goldfish?

I'm sure we're nowhere close with computer programs, but one might also apply such a test to goldfish or oak trees.

So, minor figures, often on the same political side as the aggrieved, are attacked using laws that are the equivalent of using grapeshot to kill a goldfish.

(Some) corporations are mind-boggling stupid, with the foresight of a goldfish, and greed that would make Ebeneezer Scrooge blush.

Quote examples

Just do a search for "Microsoft discontinued technology" or similar, and you get a handful of recent results -- since Google has the long-term memory of a goldfish -- but you can start to get the idea: if you build something with the Microsoft stack today, Microsoft might discontinue support or development for some part of it next year and you might be stuck.