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Phrase(s): dig for something
1. Lit. to excavate to find something that is buried. • They are digging along the river bank for a special kind of clay. • I want to dig for gold in Alaska. 2. Fig. to go to great pains to uncover information of some kind. • The police were digging for some important information while they questioned Mike "Fingers" Moran. • There is no point in digging further for the name of the inventor. I have it right here.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs