Here it is… the correct take for Congress.
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I am so irrationally sad that AOC misspelled champing, it’s like finding out she has to poop too.
? Here we use chomping at the bit
No you don’t. It’s an incorrect variant.
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Yeah it’s wrong there too. FWIW so is “new lease of life” which I heard over there a lot. Can’t think of others atm but the English are generally at least as ignorant if their own language as we are.
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I’ve always used chomping.
The idiom is usually written chomping at the bit , and some people consider this spelling wrong. But chomp can also mean to bite or chew noisily (though chomped things are often eaten, while champed things are not), so chomp at the bit means roughly the same as champ at the bit .
(not a hill I would die on though)
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I think chomping is fine, it’s just not technically correct, but it has more or less the right meaning (as opposed to mangled idioms like “for all intensive purposes”). I’d still write “champing” but my grammar nittery doesn’t extend to giving a shit about people saying “chomping” instead. It’s fine.
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