packed to the rafters
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packed to the rafters
adjective rammed to the rafters
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Completely full (of things, of stuff); packed; stuffed.
The second reason his disliking of objects seems implausible is that I'm interviewing him in his Victorian terrace house in Islington – and it is packed to the rafters, often rather beautifully, with everything from Memphis glass to mid-century Aalto furniture to William Morris prints to Picasso pla
Similar: packed to the gills · Opposite: empty, empty as a pauper's purse, empty as the tomb on Easter, clean, leer, toom, unfilled, vacant, vacuumlike, vacuous, void
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