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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
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In fact, chomp, which began as a variant of champ, is alive in English while the biting-related sense of champ is dead outside this idiom, so it’s no wonder that chomping at the bit is about 20 times as common as champing at the bit on the web. Champing at the bit can sound funny to people who aren’t familiar with the idiom or the obsolete sense of champ, while most English speakers can infer the meaning of chomping at the bit.
Still, if you’re writing for school or for readers who are versed in English, champing at the bit is probably the safer choice.
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I guess we are presuming that the readers of CalgaryPuck are "well versed in English?" That seems... generous.
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