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

[Laurence Horn]

I would submit that if you can climb down a tree, you can dig out of a hole.


LH

> On Aug 28, 2016, at 11:22 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Traditionally, one attempts to climb out of a hole. Back in 2010 there
> was a discussion on the list about the following phrase:
> 
> When you are in a hole, stop digging.
> 
> Charlie et al included the phrase in The Dictionary of Modern
> Proverbs. Here is the first citation:
> 
> [Begin excerpt]
> 1911 Washington Post 25 Oct.: "Nor would a wise man, seeing that he
> was in a hole, go to work and blindly dig it deeper, as [William
> Jennings] Bryan did when he shifted ground and assailed the integrity
> of the President and the Judges."
> [End excerpt]
> 
> Garson
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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