bursting at the seams
informalDefinition
› If a place is bursting at the seams, it has a very large number of people or things in it: Now that they've got six children, their little house is bursting at the seams.Full
(Definition of bursting at the seams from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- -ridden suffix
- alive with sth idiom
- awash adjective
- be a rich seam to mine idiom
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- crawl verb (FILL)
- crowded adjective
- flooded adjective (FULL OF)
- heaving adjective (BUSY)
- heavy with idiom
- jam-packed adjective
- litter verb
- replete adjective
- rife adjective
- saturation point noun
- sit on sb's stomach idiom
- squash noun (PUSH)
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