- professional use
- Occasionally used by professionals in construction, civil engineering, landscaping, archaeology, and agriculture to add visual flavor to posts.
- post context
- May appear in posts about 'digging deep' into a problem, doing the 'groundwork' for a project, or getting your hands dirty in business โ used metaphorically.
- appropriateness
- Generally appropriate in professional contexts when used as a tool metaphor. Would be inappropriate if used sarcastically to mock a colleague's public mistake.
- comment use
- Rare in comments; when it appears it is usually in a metaphorical motivational context like 'doing the hard digging so others don't have to.'