bursting at the seams
informalIf a place is bursting at the seams, it has a very large number of people or things in it:
Now that they have six children, their little house is bursting at the seams.
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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
- crowded
- flooded
- heaping
- heaving
- heavy with sth idiom
- jam-packed
- riddled
- rife
- sardine
- saturation point
- seam
- seethe
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