ditch digger


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a laborer who digs ditches

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Actor Robin Williams was a mime (Well, as they say, mime is money)and Marlon Brando was a ditch digger before striking it rich in Hollywood.
DITCH DIGGER: The Ditch Witch mini excavator can dig to a depth of 4 feet 11 inches and has a digging reach of almost 12 feet.
two years ago, described the new show as the 'gold diggers and the ditch digger'.
We all took it too, and if you ask any successful person of middle age what the test predicted, he or she will invariably answer "Ditch Digger" or "Grave Digger," the apocryphal answer designed to heighten the sense of irony between the promise and the result.
If that means doing your best as a ditch digger or doing your best as a doctor, it makes no difference.
Before finding fame with The Police in 1977, he also worked as a ditch digger and as a civil servant.
Concluding that a ditch digger used all of physical functions equally, the California officials determined that a 39-year-old ditch digger would be standard against which others would be measured.
An Irish immigrant who never finished grade school, he started out as a ditch digger for the Los Angeles Water System in 1878 and, teaching himself hydraulic engineering en route, worked his way up to superintendent by 1886.
it is justified to pay the high-IQ businessman and engineer more than the low-IQ ditch digger, producing income inequality, because that's the only way to make the economy grow and produce more wealth in which the ditch digger can share.
"I can't say I've ever sat down with the classified ads looking for a job, but I have worked as a ditch digger, a bartender, a handyman and a fisherman," he said.
He was the 1990 recipient of NUCA's prestigious Ditch Digger of the Year Await and was inducted into the NUCA Hall of Fame in 1996.
Harrison began life in an orphanage, worked as a ditch digger, and then married into one of the most prominent media families in the country.
A teacher, soccer coach and ditch digger in an earlier incarnation, Sting pursued his love of music through a jazz rock outfit Last Exit.
A milkman's son from Wallsend, Sting was a teacher, football coach and ditch digger before he turned to music.
His first job was a ditch digger but after a spell at Warwick University, he became a teacher.