even a drop of water couldn 't leak out

even a drop of water couldn 't leak out

To describe being crowded or surrounded very closely. It's the same as "no flow".

Idiom explanation

Idiom explanation: the same as "water tight".

Idioms and allusions

[source] Lu Xun's "just a collection of miscellaneous feelings of buttonhole silk": "I think there are always a few people around him, surrounded by impenetrable."

Discrimination of words

English translation not even a drop of water around had a rickle through. degree of common use: General emotional color: commendatory words grammatical usage: as predicate and adverbial; to describe road blocking idiom structure: supplementary generation time: Modern