Sardines
Sardines — small fish packed tight — often touch distressing events arriving unexpectedly, with the unwanted attentions of someone distasteful. The dream may ask where trouble is crowded just out of sight, ready to spring on you, and whether you're feeling hemmed in by a closeness or pursuit you'd much rather not be subjected to.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for sardines, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To eat sardines in a dream, foretells that distressing events will come unexpectedly upon you.
For a young woman to dream of putting them on the table, denotes that she will be worried with the attentions of a person who is distasteful to her.