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wall-to-wall | |||
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teeming; full up; chock-full; crowded; as full as an egg; full as an egg is of meat; chockablock (Anglophile); chock a block; chock full; choke full; chuck full; jam packed (Taras); choke-full; chuck-full; jam-packed (Taras); crowded out; full as an egg; full-charged | |||
packed; full to overflowing | |||
wall-to-wall | |||
stuffed to the gills (водитель автобуса передаёт по рации: Hi Harry, it's Jim. I'm stuffed to the gills, no more pick-ups till downtown. – Салон битком набит, до центра пассажиров не беру. ART Vancouver); packed-to-the-gills (In a city like Vancouver, touted with nauseating frequency as a Number One Place to Visit, Live, Invest, you’d think that every inch of space would be spoken for and maximized. However, as anyone who has lived here longer than a month knows, that’s not really the case. There are squares, rectangles, slices, whole blocks of mystifyingly empty land throughout our supposedly high-priced, packed-to-the-gills metropolis. | |||
packed out (very crowded: The bar was so packed out, it took us 30 minutes to get served Taras); packed (об общественном транспорте: The train was packed before it reached Columbia Station. • Vancouver’s 99 line, North America’s busiest bus route and quite possibly the hottest. Despite arriving every two minutes, the bus is constantly packed, with the heat blasted so high you think you’re in a sauna. Avoid at all costs, especially at rush hour. | |||
packed as close as herrings (in a barrel) | |||
chock-a-block | |||
paced as close as herrings (in a barrel) | |||
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pack; jam; fill to capacity | |||
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there isn't room to swing a cat; there's not an inch of room; absolutely packed |
битком набит : 36 phrases in 6 subjects |
American usage, not spelling | 2 |
Chess | 1 |
General | 26 |
Informal | 3 |
Makarov | 3 |
Travel | 1 |