dig down

1. Pay with money from one's own pocket; be generous. For example, We've got to dig down deep to make the next payment. [Colloquial; c. 1940]

Example Sentences

“I trust these guys. They want to win and they’re upset that we lost. And we have a choice — we can emotionally, mentally check out and just kind of go through the motions or we can dig down. And I know these guys are going to dig down.”

From Los Angeles Times

“When you dig down into what a lot of psychological therapies are doing, they are often trying to change either how much people are thinking about themselves or the content of what they are thinking about themselves.”

From Salon

Or, as Renée Ballard says, dig down.

From Los Angeles Times

"I want them to not give up when it does get tough. I want them to dig down, dig deep and find another way through that problem."

From BBC

Instead, he explained: "You have to look beyond that. You've got to dig down and come up with something special."

From BBC

Related Words

• bore 
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• burrow 
• clean 
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• drill 
• enter 
• excavate 
• exhume 
• go into 
• gouge 
• harvest 
• penetrate 
• scoop 
• search 
• shovel 
• sift 
• uncover 
• unearth