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champ at the bit



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Show impatience at being held back or delayed, as in The dismissal bell hadn't rung, but they were champing at the bit to leave . This term transfers the action of a horse that impatiently bites the bit in its mouth to human behavior. [Mid-1600s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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