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dig into

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dig something into something and dig something in
to stab or jab something into something. Dig your fork into that heavenly cake! He dug in his fork.
See also: dig
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Well, to take away this discouragement, I resolved to dig into the surface of the earth, and so make a declivity: this I began, and it cost me a prodigious deal of pains
Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel View in context
I took particular pleasure in this breaking of ground, for in almost all latitudes men dig into the earth for an equable temperature.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
At so much a week, they had engaged men to dig into the mound and to sift the ashes.
Law and the Lady by Collins, Wilkie View in context
 
 
 
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