Big Brother is watching you
Big Brother is watching you
A phrase taken from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, meaning one's actions and intentions are being monitored by the government as a means of controlling and suppressing the will of the populace. You have to be careful what you write in an email these days. Big Brother is watching you, after all.
See also: big, brother, watch
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- beck and call
- et tu, Brute?
- a word to the wise
- (as) sure as eggs (is eggs)
- a penny for them
- great minds
- great minds think alike
- lex dubia non obligat
- be twiddling (one's) thumbs
- be twiddling your thumbs