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
Carbrey	KAHR-bree	Irish, Scottish
Susanna	[su:'zænə]
Ingolf	ING-gawlf (German)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German
Aygul	-	Azerbaijani, Uyghur
Eerik	E:-reek	Finnish
Amethyst	AM-ə-thist	English (Rare)