Ditch
A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.
Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.
To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.
To surround with a ditch.
To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.
To dig a ditch or ditches.
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Ditch Quotations
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
Tallulah Bankhead
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Ella Maillart
What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it.
Elizabeth Warren
The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.
Kieran Culkin
You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.
John Mellencamp
We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
Ty Cobb
We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward.
David Axelrod
Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.
Richard Leakey
I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
Sam Donaldson
But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.
Paul Engle
There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
Nat Friedman
We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.
Henry Mayhew
We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.
Jane Powell
If we know we're just going to have sex and then ditch the guy, it can be fun.
Rachel Perry
Always go hard and fast enough so that when you hit the ditch you can pull out the other side.
Johnny Paycheck
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
Natalie Merchant
I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.
Tim Kaine
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Ditch Translations
ditch in Afrikaans is sloot
ditch in Dutch is groeve, greppel, gracht, kuil, groef
ditch in Latin is fossa
ditch in Portuguese is vala
ditch in Spanish is cuneta, zanja
ditch in Swedish is dike
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