Full to capacity
Are these sentences correct?
a) "The bus is full to capacity."
b) "The cinema salon is full to capacity."
Note: By 'cinema salon', I mean the venue in a cinema where people seat to watch a movie.
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Top answer
"full to capacity" is fine, though it's not different from just "full". The "to capacity" part only adds emphasis. The expression "cinema salon" may be used elsewhere in the world, but I have never heard it in North America.
- "full to capacity" is fine, though it's not different from just "full".
- The "to capacity" part only adds emphasis.
- The expression "cinema salon" may be used elsewhere in the world, but I have never heard it in North America.
- We say "movie theater" or just "theater".
- it nor Google Ngrams were able to find any examples of "cinema salon".
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"full to capacity" is fine, though it's not different from just "full". The "to capacity" part only adds emphasis.
The expression "cinema salon" may be used elsewhere in the world, but I have never heard it in North America. We say "movie theater" or just "theater". Neither fraze.it nor Google Ngrams were able to find any examples of "cinema salon". My advice would be not to use
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