English Idioms & idiomatic expressions. 2014.
Beating a dead horse — is an idiom that means a particular request or line of conversation is already foreclosed or otherwise resolved, and any attempt to continue it is futile. In British English and Australian English, the phrase is usually expressed as flogging a… … Wikipedia
beating a dead horse — (USA) If someone is trying to convince people to do or feel something without any hope of succeeding, they re beating a dead horse. This is used when someone is trying to raise interest in an issue that no one supports anymore; beating a dead… … The small dictionary of idiomes
Beating a dead horse — (USA) If someone is trying to convince people to do or feel something without any hope of succeeding, they re beating a dead horse. This is used when someone is trying to raise interest in an issue that no one supports anymore; beating a dead … Dictionary of English idioms
Beating a Dead Horse to Death... Again — Infobox Album Name = Beating a Dead Horse to Death... Again Type = compilation Artist = Dog Fashion Disco Released = October 28 2008 Recorded = 2004 2008 Genre = Avant garde metal Length = 61:35 Label = Rotten Records Producer = Reviews = Last… … Wikipedia
Dead Horse — may refer to: Dead Horse (band), an American thrash metal band Dead Horse (song), a 1991 Guns N Roses song Deadhorse, Alaska, a town Dead horse , Australian rhyming slang for tomato sauce Dead Horse (album), a 2005 album by Cassetteboy Beating a… … Wikipedia
dead horse — noun 1. : advance wages for work working off a dead horse : an old debt paying for a dead horse 2. : an exhausted or profitless topic or issue arguing this question would be beating a dead horse compare dead dog … Useful english dictionary
Flogging a dead horse — For the Sex Pistols album, see Flogging a Dead Horse (album). Flogging a dead horse (alternatively beating a dead horse in some parts of the Anglophone world) is an idiom that means a particular request or line of conversation is already… … Wikipedia
beat a dead horse — beat/flog/a dead horse phrase to waste time on something that you know is not going to happen Thesaurus: to waste time, or to pass time doing unimportant thingssynonym Main entry: horse * * * waste energy on a lost cause or unalterable situation… … Useful english dictionary
flogging a dead horse — (UK) If someone is trying to convince people to do or feel something without any hope of succeeding, they re flogging a dead horse. This is used when someone is trying to raise interest in an issue that no one supports anymore; beating a dead… … The small dictionary of idiomes
flogging a dead horse — (UK) If someone is trying to convince people to do or feel something without any hope of succeeding, they re flogging a dead horse. This is used when someone is trying to raise interest in an issue that no one supports anymore; beating a dead… … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
