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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
standing room
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even back in standing room or in the third balcony everyone must be able to hear.
▪ In fact, it's standing room only even for fish fingers.
▪ No tickets are necessary for standing room along the parade route.
▪ The air-conditioned interior will have seats for 76 passengers and standing room for another 183.
▪ The annual Christmas program, with full tuxedoed orchestra, sets, choreography and Broadway-caliber costumes, was standing room only.
▪ The last time I travelled on it there was standing room only.
▪ Tribal members said there was standing room only in the council chamber, which holds about 60 people.
▪ We arrived at Sedgefield Parish Hall, standing room only, just as his adoption meeting finished.
WordNet
standing room

n. room for spectators to stand only

Usage examples of "standing room".

And if this seems a trifling risk, let us see whether it is equalled or surpassed by the encounter of two galleys stem to stem, in the midst of the open sea, locked and entangled one with the other, when the soldier has no more standing room than two feet of the plank of the spur.

By cramming them in with standing room only, Honor could fit three hundred of Camp Inferno’.

By cramming them in with standing room only, Honor could fit three hundred of Camp Inferno's people onboard, and every one of them would have something to shoot with at the other end.

Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny.

By the time the show started the situation would be standing room only, more people in this one auditorium now than had lived on the planetoid in the old days.

Both nights were standing room only, and Miss Reba learned the ropes quickly.

The balcony wasn't much more than a railed ledge, with standing room for a man and a woman and a portable barbecue set.