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May L. Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
Plant you now, dig you later
Please, who can tell me, what this means? Is it a kind of good-bye phrase?
And where does it come from?
And where does it come from?
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I've never heard this expression. "Dig" is old slang - I'm thinking 1960s. If you dig someone or something, you like him/her/it a lot.
- I've never heard this expression.
- "Dig" is old slang - I'm thinking 1960s.
- If you dig someone or something, you like him/her/it a lot.
- Perhaps it's a throwback to that era.
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I've never heard this expression.
"Dig" is old slang - I'm thinking 1960s. If you dig someone or something, you like him/her/it a lot. Perhaps it's a throwback to that era.
"Dig" is old slang - I'm thinking 1960s. If you dig someone or something, you like him/her/it a lot. Perhaps it's a throwback to that era.
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This is Black AmE, 1930-60, meaning (as per Jonathon Greene, Slang Dictionary):
Good bye for now, see you later.
(I'll leave now, ...)
The origins:
http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000677.php
Good bye for now, see you later.
(I'll leave now, ...)
The origins:
http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000677.php
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it is an American idiom, it means gotta go now and I'll see you later...
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Anonymousit is an American idiom, it means gotta go now and I'll see you later...
A key word missing from your reply is "current." It's not.
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