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dig down
Idioms and Phrases
Pay with money from one's own pocket; be generous. For example, We've got to dig down deep to make the next payment . [ Colloquial ; c. 1940]Example Sentences
Dig down, and we know why our dark and twisted fantasies of a suffering, angry American underclass have finally come true.
If you can't find anything else, help dig down that bank, and roll those big stones into the fill.
So now he began to dig down the side of the pit so that the deer could come out.
Then they would dig down to see what it was, but it never turned out to be money.
"Dig down, boys," said father, and in short order every available shovel was out of the wagons.
He will have to dig down deeper into the very life of the sexes to know why marriage proves so disastrous.
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