throw dirt

== English == === Verb === throw dirt (third-person singular simple present throws dirt, present participle throwing dirt, simple past threw dirt, past participle thrown dirt) To fling dust or similar. (figuratively) To make derogatory or malicious allegations, particularly about people in public life. 1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at [1] on 14 Oct 06. I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'