infested with

infested with (something)

Overrun by or beset with something unpleasant and unwanted, usually a pest of some kind. We can't live in this disgusting apartment, it's infested with roaches! I just overheard the nurse saying that the second-grade class is infested with lice.
See also: infest
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*infested with something

to be contaminated with a swarm or throng of some pest. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) All the campers are infested with lice. The dog is infested with ticks.
See also: infest
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • be infested with (something)
  • infest
  • infested with (something)
  • get infested with (something)
  • come to a bad end
  • come to a bad/sticky end
  • (one's) ship comes in
  • (one's) boat comes in
  • grotty
  • snip
References in classic literature
Our way lay across high mountains infested with frightful serpents, but we had the good luck to escape them and came at last to the seashore.
Arabian Nights
All this coast is much infested with ravenous beasts, monkeys, and serpents, of which last here are some seven feet in length, and thicker than an ordinary man; in the head of this serpent is found a stone about the bigness of an egg, resembling bezoar, and of great efficacy, as it is said, against all kinds of poison.
Voyage to Abyssinia
In their eagerness to mislead them they betrayed themselves into danger, and got into a region infested with the Blackfeet.
Adventures of Captain Bonneville USA in the Rocky Mountains and
A beard and mustache covered the lower part of his face, and a tangle of hair, infested with lice, curled round his head like a cap.
War and Peace
But dirt clung to him, and he was infested with fleas.
Michael Brother of Jerry
Cruz, who was on vacation with daughters Angelina, Sam and Chesca, shared that the hotel was infested with bedbugs.
Sunshine Cruz warns of Taiwan hotel 'infested with bedbugs'
Summary: Mangos infested with insects that were shipped to Lebanon will be returned their source, Ghana, caretaker Agriculture Minister Ghazi Zeaiter told reporters Wednesday.
Insect-infested mangos to be sent back to Ghana
Wajir East MP Rashid Amin must apologise for terming Central Kenya as region heavily infested with jiggers, Ahadi Kenya Trust executive director Stanley Kamau has said.
Ahadi Trust tells Wajir East MP to apologise for jiggers remark
Within two days, they realised the 7ft fir was infested with bugs.
Christmas tree infested with bugs
This was after Pinol insisted that there was nothing wrong with eating rice infested with "bukbok" or rice weevil, adding that he can eat it.
Tindig Pilipinas asks Pinol to eat weevil-infested rice
To avoid transmission, the study advises people to avoid contact with fresh water including swimming, wading or other aquatic activities in water that may be infested with the parasites.Water from freshwater sources used for drinking or bathing must be brought to a boil for at least a minute.
Exposure to bilharzia linked to infant death
by Times News ServicePhoto of the palm trees infested with palm weevil.
Omani student helps seize truck loaded with infested palm trees
The second most heavily infested crab was a male of 120 mm short carapace width and was found infested with 471 octolasmids (436 O.
Occurrence of Pedunculate Barnacles of the Symbiotic Genus Octolasmis (Cirripedia: Crustacea) in Two Species of Edible Crabs
Wheat flour samples were artificially infested with Corcyra cephalonica, Ephestia kuehniella, Tribolium confusum (separately) and with the three insect populations together.
Impact of Wheat Flour Infestation by some Insects on its Quantity and Quality Loss, Fungal Contamination and Mycotoxins