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This is the Rachel’s English 30-Day Challenge!
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Learn 30 phrasal verbs in 30 days!
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Jumpstart your vocabulary in 2017.
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Today is Day 25 and we're studying phrasal verbs with “dig”.
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Dig in: This is an informal way to say, go ahead and start eating.
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Alright guys, the food’s going to get cold so dig in!
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We use this phrasal verb in the phase “dig one’s heels in.”
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This means to refuse, to resist.
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He keeps trying to get me to change my mind, but I’m digging in my heels.
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This means, I’m resisting, I will not change my mind.
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To dig up means to find something.
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It took forever, but I dug up the instructions on how to work the coffee maker.
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They’re trying to dig up evidence to put him in jail.
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To dig out means to locate something or someone that is under a bunch of things:
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I need to dig out that file, it’s at the very back.
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Or, after the earthquake, they tried for days to dig out survivors.
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Or, I hate it when I have to dig something out that’s at the very bottom of my purse.
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Do you dig it?
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To dig something is slang for liking it.
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I dig your shoes.
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I dig this lesson on phrasal verbs.
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Dig. Dig is simply the D sound, dd,
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tongue at the roof of the mouth dd-- releasing, dd, dih-
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The IH vowel, di-, a little bit of jaw drop,
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front of the tongue arches towards the roof of the mouth here, IH, diiihhg.
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And G. Back of the tongue lifts and touches the soft palate, then pulls away. Dig. Dig.
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