I have seen Dan Rather, and Dan Rather is me...

Peter Rukavina

I’m just off the phone with a colleague. I asked him if he was “chomping at the bit” for a piece of work he’s waiting on. I suddenly realized that, without being totally aware of it, I may pepper my day-to-day conversation with expressions like this, and may thus be suffering from some sort of Dan Rather-like perception in the conversation space. I believe I may have actually said “oh, go on…” to someone the other day. What’s happening to me?

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I believe actually that the original phrase was “champing at the bit” but it has been misused commonly over time

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