swamp with

swamp (someone or something) with (something)

1. To cover someone or something with a large amount of something, especially water. Often used in passive constructions. Heavy rainfall swamped the paths with water, making the mountain totally inaccessible. The tiny village was swamped with mud as a result of the landslide.
2. To fill a boat or ship with water, especially to the point of sinking. Often used in passive constructions. A huge wave swelled up and swamped the boat with ice-cold water. Our ship was being swamped with water, so we had to swim for shore if we wanted to survive.
3. To surround someone or something with something overpowering or pervasive, especially an odor. Often used in passive constructions. His cooking swamped the house with the smell of onions and garlic. I walked in the door and was instantly swamped with the stale stench of cigarettes, booze, and unwashed men.
4. To burden or overwhelm someone or something with a large amount of something. Often used in passive constructions. Angry customers began swamping the customer service department with complaints and threats. After the famous actor mentioned our company in one of his social media posts, we became swamped with orders from all over the country. I'd love to come see your game tomorrow, son, but I'm totally swamped with work right now.
See also: swamp
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

swamp someone or something with something

to cover or deluge someone or something with something. The flood swamped our property with river water. The many orders for their product swamped the small business with too much to do.
See also: swamp
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • a slew of (something)
  • a slue of (something)
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • all right
  • a fast talker
  • a/the feel of (something)
  • (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
  • (have) got something going (with someone)
  • (you've) got to get up pretty early in the morning to (do something)
  • a horse of another colour
References in classic literature
The sea and swamp both were doubtless alive with these mighty, carnivorous amphibians, and if not, the individual that menaced me would pursue me into either the sea or the swamp with equal facility.
At the Earths Core
In the horizon, the long range of the Cherangany Hills is visible and it's proving to be an exciting walk for the rare sitatunga shares its swamp with other animals that are also just as endangered.
OUTABOUT: The sitatunga of Saiwa
After Washington's initial land company plan fell apart due to cost and technological requirements, the operation shifted to focus on bisecting the swamp with canals.
Nat Turner was believed to have fled into the swamp with the help of the Maroons.
Mired Memory: Marronage in The Great Dismal Swamp
The fact that he modified this swamp with "Japanese" suggests that this swamp identity represented not merely an individual identity but a shared, culturally-particular identity.
From cultural alterity to the habitations of grace: the evolving moral topography of Endo's mudswamp trope
At one point, Rosenberg pelts the swamp with pebbles.
Take Me out to the World Series ... of Birding