"make a dig" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to mean to make a sarcastic or insulting remark. For example: "He made a dig about John's new shoes."
The Trinity Mirror-owned Sunday People used the episode to make a dig at its red-top rival on Twitter.
Of course, Morgan Stanley didn't produce this report for the likes of me to make a dig at the government.
"We're going to make a Dig Dug II joke and have a character make a reference to Mr Garrett [from the Facts of Life].
Representative Justin Amash, Republican of Michigan and a thorn in the president's side on national security issues, took to his well-used social media accounts to make a dig at the White House.
She appeared to make a dig at Hillary Clinton's age, asking "is Hillary a New Democrat, or an old one?" She told Republicans that they were engaged in "a war", adding that Republicans "don't sit on our thumbs".
Meanwhile, a couple of slipped lines – and one slipped stick – give Andy Gray an excuse to make a dig at the part-time nature of DJ Grant Stott's acting career, for Stott to counter with a quip about Gray's three-year absence from this panto ("I've been all over the world – and Glasgow") and for Allan Stewart, the most natural of dames, to keep the banter going through the crossfire.
So is Clooney making a dig at his friends here?
He plays below the belt, makes a dig about her father, calls her "female", a loaded pejorative that means to diminish her shine and skill.
Fast Company magazine made a dig at rivals Business Week, Forbes Fortune and Business 2.0 last week when it announced the hiring of two editors.
6.51pm: Nesbitt makes a dig about TV programmes attracting new audiences to theatre, and then one about John Barrowman's ubiquity and homosexuality, which is clearly very very funny.
Leigh couldn't resist making a dig in his acceptance speech at Venice: "I would like to thank most sincerely the Cannes film festival for rejecting this film".
