STANDING ROOM ONLY

standing room only: translation

standing room only UK US noun [U] MARKETING

► a way of selling a product in which someone tries to sell it quickly by telling the buyer that many people want to buy it and that only a limited number are left: »

With a standing room only sales close, you indicate to the buyer that, if they do not buy now, they might not be able to buy in the future.

standing room only: translation

SRO, brimful, brimming, bulging, bursting, capacity, chock-full, chuck-full, congested, cram-full, crammed, farci, filled, flush, full, full to bursting, jam-packed, overfull, overstuffed, packed, packed like sardines, plenary, ready to burst, replete, round, satiated, saturated, soaked, stuffed, surfeited, swollen, topful

Standing room only: translation

   When all seats for a performance were sold out, cheaper tickets might be sold to allow theatergoers to stand at the back of the house. Thus a notice of "S.R.O." outside a theatre meant that the show was doing excellent business. Performers boasting of success might say, according to Judge Horton, "we stood 'em up."