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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Misguided attempt to avoid ending with a "preposition"?

Am sure I've heard similar exx. (not "dig") on cable news, one very
recently. But what?

JL

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > "Some polls have him [D___ T___] on 1% of black votes, and that is a
> hole from which he cannot dig himself."
> >
> > From The Economist, at Clinton says Trump has based his campaign on
> prejudice and paranoia
> >
> > |   |
> > |   |  |   |   |   |   |   |
> > | 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 |
> > |  |
> > | View on www.economist.com | Preview by Yahoo |
> > |  |
> > |   |
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > In my dialect, "dig" is creating a hole, not climbing out of one.  Is
> the above usage specifically British?
> >
> > Joel
> >
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