pregnant with (something)

pregnant with (something)

Full of, or fraught with, or having a lot of something. Just before naming the guilty party, he gave a pause that seemed pregnant with meaning, and I wondered whether he was telling me the truth. Her speech was pregnant with emotion, and her eyes brimmed with tears as she spoke.
See also: pregnant
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • a pregnant pause
  • a pregnant pause/silence
  • pregnant
  • pregnant pause
  • pregnant silence
  • fraught with danger/peril
  • fraught
  • fraught with danger
  • genus
  • omne