packed/squashed like sardines
If people are packed or squashed like sardines, they are positioned very close together so that they cannot move:
We were squashed like sardines in the rush-hour train.
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- alive
- alive with sth idiom
- awash
- be a rich seam to mine idiom
- be riddled with sth idiom
- bristle
- burst
- congested
- cramped
- crowded
- flooded
- heaping
- heaving
- heavy with sth idiom
- riddled
- rife
- sardine
- saturation point
- seam
- seethe
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