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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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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. Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context 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. King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context I'd give it all to you, the pirate gold and every bit of treasure we could dig up. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context			different different as night and day different strokes Different strokes for different folks differentiate differentiate between differentiate from difficult difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer diffuse through dig dig at dig deep dig down dig for dig heels in dig in dig in heels dig into dig into pocket dig out dig out of dig own grave dig some dirt up dig the dirt dig up dig up dirt dig up tomahawk Dig up! dignity digress from dilate on dilemma Diligence is the mother of good luck dilly-dally with dim dim down dim out dim up dime dime a dozen din into dine dine at dine in dine off dine on dinged out dink dink off dinner			dig in heels dig in toes dig in toes dig into dig into dig into dig into a hole dig into a hole dig into pocket Dig It dig it out dig it out dig out dig out dig out dig out dig out of Dig Out Your Soul dig over dig own grave dig own grave dig own grave dig own grave dig own grave dig own grave DIG R-O dig some dirt up dig the dirt dig the dirt dig the dirt dig up dig up dirt dig up dirt dig up dirt dig up out of the earth dig up tomahawk Dig up! Dig Your Roots dig-down pit DIG-IT DIGA DIGACC DIGAJ digallic acid digallic acid digallic acid DIGAM Digambar Digambar Digambara Digambara Digambaras Digambaras DIGAMI digamism Digamist digamma Digamma (letter) Digamma function digammas Digammate

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