bursting point
English
Noun
- The point at which capacity is exceeded and something cannot take any more.
- 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
- Third class carriages have wooden seats and centre corridors; they are always crammed to bursting point.
- 2020 June 3, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: HS2 progress: "volume of activity is growing"”, in Rail, page 11:
- "HS2 is based on the West Coast Main Line bursting at the seams. Both that and the East Coast Main Line are at bursting point for capacity.
- The point at which emotional self-control is lost.
References
- “bursting point”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “bursting point”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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