"a big ditch" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It typically refers to a large hole or channel dug into the ground, often for drainage or irrigation purposes. Example: The construction crew dug a big ditch along the side of the road to divert water away from the nearby houses during heavy rains.
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"I used to call it my own Walden Pool," he said, before admitting with a laugh that "it was just a big ditch".
Now, she said, the country has to work its way out of a "big ditch" that President Bush has driven it into.
We took our hands off the wheel and our eyes off the road in 2000 and we ended up in a big ditch in 2008".
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Others believe it's just a long-term strategy designed to prevent a bigger "ditch Facebook" movement from emerging that could cost it a lot more than the time-spent reduction announced today.
Because you know, if you do it, you're going to dig yourself a great big ditch".
Warnings from America and Europe that the PA might lose foreign funding if it includes Hamas, a listed terrorist organisation, have had a similar effect.If the election is held and it would be political suicide for Mr Abbas to ditch it now—a big unknown is how the results will be received.
Adam Clymer's "Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch" is a case study of how one issue played out during the scorched-earth campaigns of the 1976-80 period, when the New Right rose to prominence.
But, uplands or not, there is a big economic ditch in the way.
After two standard fences comes the third, a big open ditch and the first real challenge.
When Clyde Butcher first began exploring the Everglades in 1984, "there was virtually nothing to photograph — it was one big ditch," he says.
The number of patents increased, suggesting an intellectual awakening, but there were also fears that mobility could lead to moral decline, and one paper denounced the canal as "the Big Ditch of Iniquity".
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