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Beat A Dead Horse Idiom. Similar meaning - 92 Lists. To beat a dead horse would be pointless as it wouldnt be able to go anywhere. To beat a dead horse. Beat a dead horse.
If something is already broken there is no point in trying to use it. If something is already done and over with there is no point in still talking about it. However if the horse were already dead no amount of beating would make it move. For example Politicians who favor the old single-tax idea are beating a dead horseFrom the 1600s on the term dead horse was used figuratively to mean something of no current value specifically an advance in pay or other debt that had to be worked flogged off. To waste time doing something that has already been attempted. This phrase alludes to the fact that the horse is dead so beating it now is pointless.
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It was notorious that Mr. An early written form of this popular idiom is found in an 1859 issue of the London paper Watchman and Wesleyan Advertiser. Waste effort on a lost cause. To continue to argue about something that has been settled. It has nothing to do with beating someone or a dead horse or any other animal for that matter. Any further discussion on it might be seen as pointless because the issue was already talked about before.