bursting (or bulging) at the seams
informal (Of a place or building) full to overflowing: because the hotel was bursting at the seams everyone had to double up...- The death of his father and the birth of his son are the framing events for a canvas bursting at the seams with drama and allegory, visual detail and theatrical elaboration.
- The chosen venue was a trendy tapas joint, which was bursting at the seams with the usual assortment of black-clad denizens.
- And they're bursting at the seams with some of the problems that I talked about earlier - this notion of reallocating storage and the backup problems.
See parent entry: seam