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Dig in   /dɪg ɪn/   Listen
Dig in

verb
1.
Occupy a trench or secured area.  Synonym: entrench.
2.
Eat heartily.  Synonym: pitch in.






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"Dig in" Quotes from Famous Books



... spoke the mole, as she began to stop up the hole Sammie had made. She really did very well for a blind animal, but then she had been blind so long that she did not know what daylight looked like. "You had better dig in some other place," the mole concluded, as she finished ...
— Sammie and Susie Littletail • Howard R. Garis

... Britain which were not more justifiable, because they exceeded the bounds of a just retaliation and were chargeable with inhumanity and cruelty. Many of the English who were taken on the Spanish coast were sent to dig in the mines of Potosi; and by the usual progress of a spirit of resentment, the innocent were, after a while, confounded with the guilty in indiscriminate punishment. The complaints of the merchants kindled a violent flame throughout the nation, which soon after broke out in the House ...
— The Federalist Papers • Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison

... were not content to give up the idea of making us their servants. I happened to be on the next list prepared. This time the task was to dig in Captain Alexander's garden, which we would have been obliged to perform with an armed guard standing ...
— Daring and Suffering: - A History of the Great Railroad Adventure • William Pittenger

... tell you what, my friend," said Scrooge. "I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore," he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the Tank again: "and therefore I am about to raise ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 • Charles H. Sylvester

... billboard. Kent had submerged his grief in work; the eternal drive of the true scientist to drag the truth out of Mother Nature. He was constitutionally incapable of sabotaging the very instruments that had been built to dig in ...
— Psichopath • Gordon Randall Garrett


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