[Ads-l] "dig out" wikthout the "out"

[Laurence Horn]

Yeah, I think given the context there's a missing "out" here.  There has never been a place in the universe in or from which Trump does not dig himself.

LH

> On Aug 26, 2016, at 10:20 AM, Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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> "Some polls have him [D___ T___] on 1% of black votes, and that is a hole from which he cannot dig himself."
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> From The Economist, at Clinton says Trump has based his campaign on prejudice and paranoia
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> | Clinton says Trump has based his campaign on prejudice a...The Democratic nominee suggested that Donald Trump had aligned himself to white supremacists and conspiracy theorists |
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> | View on www.economist.com | Preview by Yahoo |
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> In my dialect, "dig" is creating a hole, not climbing out of one.  Is the above usage specifically British?
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> Joel
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