Idiom of the Day
dip into (something)
to borrow from a supply of something
We had to dip into our savings to get enough money for a holiday.
Fact
Lee De Forest, the inventor of the radio tube, was tried for fraud in 1913. He was accused of tricking the public into buying stocks in his company, the Radio Telephone Company, by making absurd and deliberately misleading claims about the possibility of transmitting the human voice across the Atlantic Ocean.
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