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Packed Like Sardines :

If a place is extremely crowded, people are packed like sardines or packed in like sardines.

During Kumbh Mela, people were packed like sardines in almost all the streets.

Paddle Your Own Canoe :

If you paddle your own canoe, you do things for yourself without outside help.

“Do not worry”, said Malathi to her mother, “ I can paddle my own canone when I am in Mumbai.”

Pain In The Neck :

If someone is very annoying and always disturbing you, they are a pain in the neck.

PAIN IN THE BUTT, PAIN IN THE ASS & PAIN IN THE ARSE are less polite alternative forms.

Paint The Town Red :

If you go out for a night out with lots of fun and drinking, you paint the town red.

Paint Yourself Into A Corner :

If someone paints themselves into a corner, they get themselves into a mess.

Painted Jezebel :

A painted Jezebel is a scheming woman.

Palm Off :

To cheat

He palmed off a counterfeit coin on the shopkeeper and slipped away.

Palmy Days :

Days of prosperity

I feel sad now to think of Palmy days.

Pandora’s Box :

All the ills of human life

If you open a Pandora’s something you do cause all sorts of trouble that you hadn’t anticipated.

To discuss all the economic and political problems of the world is like opening Pandora’s Box.

Paper Over The Cracks :

If you paper over the cracks, you try to make something look or work better but only deal with superficial issues, not the real underlying problems.

Paper Tiger :

A paper tiger is a person or country or institution that looks powerful, but is actually weak.

Par For The Course :

If something is par for the course, it is what you expected it would be. If it is above par, it is better and if it is below par, it is worse.

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