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                           Teeming with, full of, as in After the annual stocking, the pond was alive with trout. [Late 1700s]
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
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                           Phrase(s): 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!
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
                        McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs