unofan
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And again, one merely says "Trump" or related and people are chomping at the bit, and not seeing the context
Or, you know, you were wrong. Trump has never been the hardest working at anything in his life.
And again, one merely says "Trump" or related and people are chomping at the bit, and not seeing the context
"champing"chomping
And again, one merely says "Trump" or related and people are chomping at the bit, and not seeing the context
Or, you know, you were wrong. Trump has never been the hardest working at anything in his life.
Trying to nail his daughter, perhaps.
I’ll gladly admit I froth. When one person causes the deaths of many innocent citizens through deliberate lies and reality warping, I will froth.
I still say that the Washington Monument would be a great hanging post for crimes like these.
I don't know if that would work for a hanging post.
As a spot to throw someone up against for a firing squad, absolutely.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Donald Trump set to fall back on xenophobia with re-election plan in tatters <a href="https://t.co/gJrg3BFz6d">https://t.co/gJrg3BFz6d</a></p>— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1254789066257657856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Yeah, that worked so well for the midterms.
Am I the only (other) one who has never heard of this?
Well, yeah. Everyone knows what "chomping at the bit" means, too, but I'd lose a corner off my Pedant Card if I didn't point it out.Tons of people make the mistake so I'm guessing no.
It's definitely in the top ten of Misheard Lyrics for idioms.
Card shark (sharp)
Baited breath ('bated, as in "abated")
Free reign (rein; it's a horse, not a king)
Tender hooks (tenterhooks)
Wet your appetite (whet like sharpening a knife)
"Jerry-rigged" is an example of a mistaken idiom which became its own accepted phrase from brute force repeated mistaken use. Jury (no relation to a legal jury) and rig are both seamanship terms I learned as a tyke, so jury-rig makes perfect sense for "half-as-sed". Jerry-rig has no derivation at all, but it's so common everybody knows what it means, which is the definition of language.
Who wants to tell him?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Why did the US (NIH) in 2017 give $3.7m to the Wuhan Lab in China?<br><br>Such grants were prohibited in 2014.<br><br>Did Pres. Obama grant an exception?</p>— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) <a href="https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1254513987196248065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
To be fair, Rudy is too busy trying to **** his cousin to think about that.