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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 |
|---|
| Cai (2) | | - | Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Romance |
| Rada | | - | Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian |
| Bryon | | BRIE-ən | English |
| Byron | | BIE-rən | English |
| Lurdes | | - | Portuguese |
| Herry | | - | Medieval English |