Chock-a-block

Mountaineering is chock-a-block with terms that never need translating, because every mountaineer adopts them.

The streets were chock-a-block.

We're just coming into Nottingham. The platform's chock-a-block.

Don’t bother with the 7:30 train; it’s always chock-a-block.

"Parking at the railheads, Morpeth and so on, is just totally chock-a-block now. You won't get a parking space in Morpeth [station car park] after 0730, so we really need to be providing a service at these local stations."

The first was my experience of motoring, paddling, and poling a dugout canoe through the Equatorial African swamplands that were once inhabited by people who called themselves Nunu and being struck by the astonishing array of micro-environments packed chock-a-block into a region only 40 kilometers long by 20 kilometers wide.

The Piney Creek General Store in Story, Wyoming, is chock-a-block filled with an enormous range of miscellaneous paraphernalia that includes groceries, gourmet cooking ingredients, beer and wine, cast-iron cookware, and kitschy souvenirs and gifts.

One room was chock-a-block full, to the ceiling; you couldn't get into that bedroom.

The place is chock-a-block full of old empty bottles on shelves, a collection from around the world.

The quay teemed chock-a-block with porters, officials, clumps of overcoated people under umbrellas.