"dig about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used in a figurative sense to mean searching or exploring for something. Example: She always liked to dig about in old bookshops, hoping to find rare first editions.
Dig about for "song of the summer" on social media and you'll find fans resorting to bigging up tracks from the hammy likes of Adam Lambert and Meghan Trainor.
Even with the silly plot aside, it's something I could always dig about Twilight as a straight male; that unwillingness to bow down to a male idea of entertainment.
Even with the silly plot aside, There was always something I could dig about Twilight as a straight male: The franchises unwillingness to bow down to a male idea of entertainment.
What I dig about Lee Daniels is he's fearless.
It's not one of those shows where you can dig about three inches and come out the other end.
One thing that I really dig about this project is that these poems get to have different lives across different media.
They also dug about 200 feet of horizontal shafts in a fruitless search for the tunnel.
The vandals removed the tomb's marble cover and dug about 1.5 metres (5ft) into the ground.
Maori houses were made of timber, rectangular in plan, and generally dug about 1 foot (0.3 metre) into the earth's surface.
The main burrow is dug about 2 metres (6.6 feet) below the surface and is constructed with separate chambers for nesting, food storage, and waste.
Since the 1930s, oil and gas companies have dug about 10,000 miles of canals through the Delta's shady cypress swamps, black mangroves, and emerald marshes.
