back-to-back

[back-to-back] {adv.}

1. Immediately following.

* /The health clinic had back-to-back appointments for the new students during the first week of school./

2. Very close to, as if touching.

* /Sardines are always packed in the can back-to-back./

* /The bus was so full that people had to stand back-to-back./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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