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

[Joel Berson]

"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

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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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In my dialect, "dig" is creating a hole, not climbing out of one.  Is the above usage specifically British?

Joel

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