| 单词 | to be packed like sardines |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be packed (in) like sardines d. In colloquial phrase to be packed (in) like sardines: to be crowded or confined tightly together, as sardines in a tin. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] > crowd together thickc1000 pressa1350 empressc1400 shock1548 serry1581 pester1610 serr1683 thicken1726 crush1755 scrouge1798 pack1828 to close up1835 to be packed (in) like sardines1911 scrum1913 1911 W. Owen Let. 12 Sept. (1967) 80 The entrance hall..where for half an hour the boys stand waiting packed like sardines. 1922 Dial. Notes 5 172 We were packed in there like sardines in a box. 1974 Daily Mirror 11 Nov. 4/3 Lodgers at a lorry drivers' digs hit by a horror blaze were ‘packed in like sardines’, it was claimed yesterday. < as lemmas |
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