| 单词 | to champ at the bit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto champ at (also on) the bit intransitive. figurative. to champ at (also on) the bit and variants: to be restlessly impatient or eager to do something, esp. in the face of a constraint or delay. Chiefly in present participle. Cf. sense 3. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > impatience > be impatient [verb (intransitive)] to think longc1300 one's fingers are all thumbs1546 bate1599 to sit upon hot cockles1607 to be upon the nettle (also in a nettle)1723 to champ at (also on) the bit1832 to chafe at the bit1873 1832 Examiner 6 May 1/1 He has kept the country champing on the bit, to raise its mettle, and make it feel its ground. 1832 Examiner 3 June 6 Petruchio's wondering spouse..is champing the bit, as it were. 1885 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 1 Oct. ‘Little breeches’ has been tramping down all the tall timber in his vicinity and champing at the bit tremendously, in his impatience..to tackle Gov. Hoadley in a political discussion. 1903 Coshocton (Ohio) Daily Age 19 Apr. Dr..Marshall and..Mills are champing at the bit while waiting for their new Winton cars to arrive. 1946 Rev. Polit. 8 108 It is only necessary to reflect on the lot of European youth, morally immured in the immense prisoners' camp which the Atlantic Wall created, who champed at the bit, impuissant, excluded from all action..waiting for D-Day. 1974 J. Brennan Parker Ranch of Hawaii iv. 33 As a teen-age lad he was long-legged, raw-boned, and champing at the bit to go places and do things of significance. 2003 S. Brett Murder in Museum xiii. 103 He seemed raring to go back, didn't he, champing at the bit to finish the job? < as lemmas |
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