bog in

Verb

Meaning

(Australia, intransitive, slang) To start eating with gusto.

(Australia, intransitive, slang) To tackle a task vigorously.

(transitive, usually in the passive) To halt the progress of.

Examples

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord. Henry David Thoreau

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