bursting at the seams

bursting at the seams

The Chinese idiom, which is used to describe the crowded or closely surrounded, is the same as "the water is blocked". It comes from the Dunhuang Bianwen anthology Wu Zixu Bianwen.

Idioms and allusions

[source]: "Dunhuang bianwenji · Wuzixu Bianwen": "when the imperial edict is down, the water is blocked, Sichuan and county know each other, and the road is listed."

Discrimination of words

Water tight

Usage: used as predicate and adverbial to describe road blocking