hole digging
Scooping out earth
Hole digging is the act of excavating earth to create an opening in the ground.
The term often appears in discussions of manual labor or construction: The hole digging took all morning.
Figuratively, hole digging can describe making a situation worse through continued ill-advised action—digging yourself deeper into a hole: His constant excuses were just more hole digging.
- shovelTool for moving earth
- dirtLoose dry earth
- dirt pileAccumulated loose earth
- earthSoil or electrical grounding
- excavationAct of unearthing
breaking ground · trench · burrow · pit · spade · tunnel · grave · six feet under · groundbreaking · soil · clay · backhoe · hard work · mound · cavity · hollow · scoop · quarry
- Tree Plantingsapling, seedling, planting, transplanting, root ball
- earthworkexcavation, excavating, trenching, shoveling, earthmoving
- hound trainingrecall training, nose work, scenting, trailing, tracking
earth movement direction
hole diggingfilling in
Temporary replacement duty
backfilling · covering up · burying · mounding · piling