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	Pronounced	Usage
Duci	-	Hungarian
Aristides	ah-ree-STEE-dhes (Spanish), ə-reesh-TEE-dəsh (Portuguese), ə-reesh-CHEE-jəsh (Brazilian Portuguese)	Ancient Greek (Latinized), Spanish, Portuguese
Encarna	en-KAHR-nah	Spanish
Liselott	-	Swedish
Channah	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Kaden	KAY-dən	English (Modern)