Anonymous

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- ‘to stick, set up’ (compare Latin fīgō ‘to affix, fasten’, Lithuanian diegti ‘to prick; plant’, dýgsti ‘to geminate, grow’). https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/dit...

Anonymous

literally shoved into a ditch is what it refers to. We don't actually do that so the term is not literal, but the term has a literal origin.

Anonymous

Someone in a ditch is out of sight and effectively gone.

Anonymous

covered wagon days,bad date? tossim/er into the ditch longside the dirt road jethro

Anonymous

Something ending up in a ditch suggests that 1) it was involved in an accident or 2) it was tossed into the ditch to get rid of it.