spring to life

Fig. to become suddenly alive or more alive. The party sprang to life after midnight. The city sprang to life at dawn.

1. to suddenly become active I was standing on the golf course when the sprinkler system sprang to life without warning.

2. to begin existing The company sprang to life in 1939 as a manufacturer of testing instruments.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Pasquale	-	Italian
Humphrey	['hʌmfri]
Amiran	-	Georgian, Literature
Ida	IE-də (English), EE-dah (German, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Italian)	English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Slovene
Theodotos	-	Ancient Greek
Martyn	-	Welsh, Ukrainian