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