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dig up

Verb

Meaning

remove, harvest, or recover by digging

find by digging in the ground

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To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet. Merton Miller

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. Leo Tolstoy

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. Charles Spurgeon

The young men listen dutifully, for the most part, and from time to time some of them even take the trouble to go over to the college library, and dig up one or another of his novels, and crouch there, among the stacks, flipping impatiently through the pages, looking for parts that sound true. Michael Chabon

Sometimes my feelings get so big that I just want to swim out into the darkness. Just jump off the end of the world. Sometimes I want to dig, right down to the bones of everything. Sometimes when you dig, you dig up stuff you might not want to find. But that's where the good stuff lies. Cecil Castellucci

Those who are carrying elephants home on their heads, need not use their toes to dig up crickets on the way. Nigerian Proverb

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