full house

Definitions

1. A hand that consists of three of a kind and a pair.
2. A single player scoring a try, conversion, penalty goal and drop goal in the same match
3. A situation in which a place is filled with people to its maximum capacity.
4. (theater) An event for which every seat is sold out, completely filled with an audience for a play, concert, or movie, creating a successful, packed venue.
   broadly

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Examples

“This loss of interest⟳, hair, and enterprise — / Ah, if the game were poker, yes, / You might discard them, draw⟳ a full house! / But it's chess.”

“But the picture was different elsewhere - Theatre Royal Windsor recorded full houses, although the managing director stated that the actors had trouble⟳ getting to and from the theatre.”

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