1. to hammer away
2. poke
I don't mean to poke my nose into your affairs.
Don't poke fun at foreigners.
Tom was afraid that Mary might poke her eye out, so he told her to be careful.
Dad, should I poke Rod with a sharp thing like the mouse did?
He poked the fire with his stick.
Just don't tell me that he didn't poke her. They've been living together for over two years.
You'll poke someone in the eye with that umbrella if you're not careful!
... pull them or you poke them.
I bought a pig in a poke yesterday.
Anglais mot "wbijać się"(poke) se produit dans des ensembles:
New technology3. dug
They dug a grave.
Tom dumped Mary's body into the hole he had dug previously.
An antique pot was dug out.
The cat dug its claws into my hand.
Before he went fishing, he dug up some worms for bait.
Have you dug up the potatoes?
I bet you'd never heard of a Stroh violin before Tom Waits dug it back up! Anyway, it used a large metal horn as its resonator instead of a wooden box so it could be picked up better by recording equipment before the late 1920s.
Pretty soon along came a steam shovel and dug a road through the hill covered with daisies.
The steam shovels dug down three stories on one side and four stories on the other side.
I had such a plentiful breakfast that I dug a big hole.
A cellar was dug on top of the hill and they slowly moved the house from the road to the hill.
The tunnel was dug with the aid of heavy machinery. | He dug into his pocket and took out a few coins. | As I dug deeper into his past (= found out more about it), I realized that there was a lot about this man that I didn't know.
He has dug his grave, but he'll not lay there until that treasure's out.
It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.