Study hard in school, teachers would say to John Kalkhoven, or you'll end up a
ditchdigger.
Throughout the scene, Zeynab's face is ensconced in shadow, and Behzad unabashedly and crudely exhorts Zeynab to reveal herself to him so that he can see Yusufs--the
ditchdigger's--taste in women.
A former
ditchdigger with a bushy mustache evoking a bizarro-world Burt Reynolds, Rehberg served a term as lieutenant governor in the 1990s before launching a failed Senate bid in 1996.
Sting is the milkman's son from Wallsend, North Tyneside, a
ditchdigger who went on to become one of pop's wealthiest stars.
In 1944, when he was already sixty-seven years old, the insidious Organisation Todt ("Vernichtung durch Arbeit") drafted him into enforced labor as a
ditchdigger in Alsace, but he survived the armed SA guards, the exhausting toil, and the rampant disease, and he lived another twenty-five years.
In a barbershop quartet, a
ditchdigger can stand between a doctor and a lawyer or a bail bondsman, and all the differences in their lives melt away in the swell of the crescendo.
Why am I not a
ditchdigger? Why don't I plow fields?
Today, a successful politician is skillful at "talking down," colloquializing his language, striking the pose that he talks neither better nor worse than a
ditchdigger. McWhorter cites the example of Al Gore's failure as a campaigner--largely because he spoke so well that the public distrusted him.
The challenges surrounding the Thornton sisters' struggle to obtain higher education were detailed in the physician's Pulitzer Prize-nominated book, The
Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astounding Success Story (Plume, $12.95), which was also made into a movie.
Mitchum claimed to have worked as a
ditchdigger, songwriter, coal miner, deckhand, songwriter coal astrologer Carroll Richter, and pro boxer, lasting 27 fights.