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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. 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 More results

References in classic literature

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

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