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like a champ
Idioms and Phrases
Very well, very successfully, as in He got through that audition like a champ . This expression, in which champ is short for champion , alludes to the winner of a sporting competition. [ Slang ; c. 1960]Example Sentences
The retired late-night talk show host admittedly didn’t grow up eating much spicy food, but he still handled the heat like a champ.
"She held it together like a champ," Louisville Fire Department Chief Brian O'Neill said in a news conference, describing the woman as very calm throughout her ordeal.
Three years into the mission, the rover has performed like a champ, he said.
As Salon’s Melanie McFarland recently wrote of Santos, he’s “nakedly performing the strategy that may return Donald Trump to power and, more frightfully, keep him there, which is that he follows orders like a champ.”
But he’s also nakedly performing the strategy that may return Donald Trump to power and, more frightfully, keep him there, which is that he follows orders like a champ.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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