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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]yes but because his daughter was in that class.  [/quote]

Yup. You won't be seeing Brett Kavanaugh doing it anytime soon.[/quote]

I hear Justice Kavanaugh is in big demand to speak at girls high school commencement ceremonies, and Holton is chomping at the bit. Said no one.[/quote]

Yeah, no one says that because its "champing," not "chomping."[/quote]

Wow, you found a minor spelling/usage error that someone made almost 10 months ago.  Good for you. You anonymously appear to be marginally smarter than another anonymous person on DCUM when the topic is horse-related idioms.[/quote]
 HAHA
I also thought it was chomping, as in a horse chomping on the bit ready to go!
Oh looky look: Here's was goggle says, guess you are both right. Lucky day! But if this is what one gets from a stone ridge education I'll pass:
"The original phrase is, indeed, champing at the bit, but chomping at the bit emerged in America in the 1930s according to the Oxford English Dictionary and chomp has overtaken champ in common use. A Google web search for chomping at the bit returns about twice as many results as a search for champing at the bit."[/quote]

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