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Beating A Dead Horse Idiom. Weve all moved on from that problem so theres no use beating a dead horse. You keep trying to convince him to join your company but I think youre flogging a dead horse. - I dont really agree but were beating a dead horse here. In a live performance he was whipping a dead horse.
Or beating a dead dog in some parts of the Anglophone world is an idiom that means a particular effort is a waste of time as there will be no outcome such as in the example of flogging a dead horse which will not cause it to do any useful work. Lets move on to the next part Or if YOU want to keep talking about something your partner doesnt agree on. 800 BCE A line in Book 23 of Homers Iliad is commonly translated as Antilochusyou drive like a maniac. To waste time and effort trying to do something that is impossible Is it just beating a dead horse to ask for another recount of the. An early written form of this popular idiom is found in an 1859 issue of the London paper. Back the wrong horse - to support someone or something that cannot or does not win or succeed.
10 Commonly Used Horse Idioms Part 1.
To continue to persue a situation that nothing is happening in. Lets move on to the next topic - Wait a second and Im sorry to keep flogging a dead horse but theres another reason we shouldnt buy computers. Hungry for a huge vocabulary. Sometimes I feel like Im beating a dead horse. If youre beating a dead horse youre engaged in a futile or pointless action. He was trying to get horse up to get up move and carry the load for him.