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dig up

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dig someone or something up
Fig. to go to great effort to find someone or something. (There is an implication that the thing or person dug up is not the most desirable, but is all that could be found.) Mary dug a date up for the dance next Friday. I dug up a recipe for roast pork with pineapple. I dug up a carpenter who doesn't charge very much.
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dig up something
to find something, esp. from storage We dug up the old dairy records that showed how much milk each cow produced every day.
Etymology: based on the literal meaning of dig something up (to remove something from the ground, esp. with a tool)
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By either a happy inspiration or some destructive design, it was one day proposed--nobody appeared to know from whom the suggestion came- -to dig up the vine, and after a good deal of debate this was done.
On the third day we marched again, hoping that we might live to return to dig up our buried ivory, and in due course, after a long and wearisome tramp, and many adventures which I have not space to detail, we reached Sitanda's Kraal, near the Lukanga River, the real starting-point of our expedition.
I'd give it all to you, the pirate gold and every bit of treasure we could dig up.
 
 
 
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