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when drinking water, don't forget the well-diggers

  1. drinking water
    water suitable for drinking or daily use; also means to drink or obtain water for such purposes
  2. adverb
    not
    Negative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings
  3. to forget
    to fail to remember; to overlook or neglect
  4. verb
    to dig
    to dig; to excavate; to hollow out the ground
  5. well
    deep hole dug in the ground to obtain water, oil, or gas; also describes things shaped like a well shaft such as a skylight or mine shaft
  6. person
    person; people; human being; a human