Sunshine@piefed.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 6 个月前What Stops ICE from Snatching People Off Canadian Streets? Very Littlethewalrus.caexternal-linkmessage-square65linkfedilinkarrow-up1251arrow-down17 cross-posted to: canadapolitics@lemmy.worldpoliticaldiscussion@lemmy.world
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minus-squaretempest@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up24·edit-26 个月前Language, where you just have to be wrong long enough that your version becomes a dialect.
minus-squareAmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·6 个月前Champing at the bit sounds dumb af tbh and I’ve never heard it before IRL compared to chomping.
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 个月前It’s chomping, referring to the bit that goes in a horses mouth. If it chomps, it means it’s eager. Hence, chomping at the bit means someone is eager.
minus-squareTriasha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 个月前Forty white horses on a red hill, first they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit. Tolkien thought it was champ.
Language, where you just have to be wrong long enough that your version becomes a dialect.
It’s literally the worst.
Champing at the bit sounds dumb af tbh and I’ve never heard it before IRL compared to chomping.
It’s chomping, referring to the bit that goes in a horses mouth. If it chomps, it means it’s eager. Hence, chomping at the bit means someone is eager.
Forty white horses on a red hill, first they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit.
Tolkien thought it was champ.
Teef!