Plant you now, dig you later

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May L.  #287280  Mon, 30 Oct 06 08:05 AM

Please, who can tell me, what this means? Is it a kind of good-bye phrase?

And where does it come from?

  
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Grammar Geek  #287421  Mon, 30 Oct 06 02:46 PM

I've never heard this expression.

"Dig" is old slang - I'm thinking 1960s. If you dig someone or something, you like him/her/it a lot. Perhaps it's a throwback to that era.

  
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Barbara, who answers in American English.
Marius Hancu  #287436  Mon, 30 Oct 06 03:07 PM
This is Black AmE, 1930-60, meaning (as per Jonathon Greene, Slang Dictionary):

Good bye for now, see you later.
(I'll leave now, ...)

The origins:
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May L.  #288086  Wed, 01 Nov 06 06:19 AM
Great! Thank you ever so much!
  
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