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- packed in like sardines
packed in like sardines
packed in like sardines
Extremely crowded, as in I could barely breathe-we were packed in like sardines. This term, alluding to how tightly sardines are packed in cans, has been applied to human crowding since the late 1800s.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Addinsell | | [adinsel] | |
| Kay | | [kei] | |
| &Thorn;OrbjÖRn | | - | Icelandic |
| Marvin | | MAHR-vin (English), MAHR-veen (German) | English, German |
| Birgit | | BIR-git (Swedish) | Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German |
| Damian | | DAY-mee-ən (English), DAHM-yahn (Polish) | English, Polish, Dutch |