Dug in
For more than a decade, the BBC’s flagship football series has faced criticism for being ‘stale’ and ‘predictable’. With the show back on screens for another Premier League season, little has changed, writes Louis Chilton, and Gary Lineker remains, dug in like a unusually well-compensated tick
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https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/match-of-the-day-premier-league-football-b1906082.html?amp
What is the grammatical form and function of dug in?
What does the whole phrase "dug in like a unusually well-compensated tick"?
How do we know whether a "dug in" a phrasal verb or not?
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Answered by S1m0n and me in WordReference. An army is said to be 'dug in' when it has constructed a well-fortified series of trenches and foxholes to protect it from enemy attack. Similarly, a tick burrows into the skin of a host animal before it commences feeding from it.
- Answered by S1m0n and me in WordReference.
- An army is said to be 'dug in' when it has constructed a well-fortified series of trenches and foxholes to protect it from enemy attack.
- Similarly, a tick burrows into the skin of a host animal before it commences feeding from it.
- In the author's simile, Lineker sits like a well-fortified parasite upon the BBC's football coverage.
- Grammatically, 'dug in' is an adjective object of the verb 'remains'.
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Answered by S1m0n and me in WordReference.
An army is said to be 'dug in' when it has constructed a well-fortified series of trenches and foxholes to protect it from enemy attack. Similarly, a tick burrows into the skin of a host animal before it commences feeding from it. In the author's simile, Lineker sits like a well-fortified parasite upon the B
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