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champing at the bit

adjective as in chomping at the bit

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He has scores to settle and Gaetz was champing at the bit to help him do it.

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After a week where Donald Trump unveiled one of the strangest Cabinets in recent memory, "Saturday Night Live" was champing at the bit.

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He has made it plain that he is champing at the bit to oversee Trump's massive deportation plan, revealing that wholesale deportations are the goal.

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Indeed, Trump is champing at the bit to again enact huge tax breaks for the richest 1 percent and corporations.

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The supplemental investigation was simply a #MeToo-era exercise in providing cover to Republicans who wanted to appear to take the allegations against Kavanaugh seriously — when in fact they were champing at the bit to confirm another ultraconservative justice.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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