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"brim over" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to be filled to the point of overflowing, usually with emotions or feelings. Example: After years of hard work and sacrifice, her joy at achieving her dream job was so overwhelming that it caused her eyes to brim over with tears of happiness.
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Every memoir should brim over with the physical experiences that once streamed into the author's senses.
The assertion that overweight people, when dying, brim over with song.
Mr. Dendy, his body language pitch perfect, is windblown and tremulous, his mascaraed eyes ever ready to brim over.
Every 10 years or so the Thames there would rise, brim over its banks, & cover the fields for miles.
Amid these trivial events Ms. Cusk's characters brim over with internal musings, similar again to "Saturday" and "Mrs. Dalloway".
Even so, the solar panel array will extend out like a brim over the sidewalk, requiring a special permit from the city.
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Neither is exactly brimming over with gravitas.
My house is... brimming over with chaos.
Iraq is brimming over with rubble.
Couples lean forward, suddenly brimming over with things to say to each other.
The electronic discovery of this lost world was brimming over with intriguing possibilities.
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