• AGD4
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    4 days ago

    I’m absolutely champing at the bit to get back to it…

    Huh… I was going to deride the newsletter for such an obvious grammatical error, but evidently Champing at the bit is the original expression!

    https://grammarist.com/usage/champing-chomping-at-the-bit/

    Champing stems from an old Middle English word that has been around for at least 600 years and relates to the grinding of a horse’s teeth.

    Someone at CIG knows their historical linguistics.