alive with (someone or something)

alive with (someone or something)

Full of or covered with something. At night, the field came alive with fireflies. The court was alive with jubilant fans after the basketball team's big win. It's worse than we thought—this whole section of the woodwork is alive with termites.

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alive with (people or things)

Fig. covered with, filled with, or active with people or creatures. Look! Ants everywhere. The floor is alive with ants!

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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

alive with

Teeming with, full of, as in After the annual stocking, the pond was alive with trout. [Late 1700s]

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