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beat a dead horse AmE

The report is not just about flogging a dead horse.

Seems a bit like flogging a dead horse to me.

However, there is a saying that you should not flog a dead horse.

"It would be a bit like flogging a dead horse," the Western diplomat said.

In both cases, that would be tantamount to flogging a dead horse.

Mr President, there is no point flogging a dead horse.

I think he's like flogging a dead horse here I really do!

"Although we worked hard enough to make him interesting, it was a bit like flogging a dead horse.

I was going to post something about a former prime minister and president, but that's flogging a dead horse now.

Some people would call it flogging a dead horse.

Is there a constitutionally protected right to flog a dead horse?

Ask them if they want Thorium reactors and you'll be flogging a dead horse.

It is rather like flogging a dead horse.

Flogging a dead horse is a common English idiom.

The job centre says I'm flogging a dead horse."

Flogging a dead horse, I admit it, but that's the stage I'm at.

If something is carried on then it is flogging a dead horse or blind ambition.

If Intel's still flogging it, they are flogging a dead horse.

Flogging a dead horse again will only mean a bigger double dip when people wake up and smell the coffee.

I mean better to flog a dead horse than a live lion.' '

On the Agriculture Committee, we, too, are fed up with forever flogging a dead horse where this subject is concerned.

First of all, because we have seen that simply carrying on providing aid for combined transport is tantamount to flogging a dead horse.

The Graun editorial team really seem to be flogging a dead horse here...

Please stop flogging a dead horse.

Perhaps a more apt headline would have been - Deluded conman tries to flog a dead horse.

Well, you can beat a dead horse, but I've yet to see anyone ride one!

But, as with any columnist, I love beating a dead horse.

I realize I'm beating a dead horse by asking this, but after reading.

It just felt like we were beating a dead horse after a while."

I feel like we're beating a dead horse over there."

"In some cases, you must counsel them to stop beating a dead horse and let it go," he said.

She was, he said, "beating a dead horse" on one point.

Why beat a dead horse or a dying Administration?

But you are truly beating a dead horse," I said, trying to make light of the situation.

There was no sense in beating a dead horse.

If the Governor "wanted to ride in like the cavalry, why is he beating a dead horse?"

"Either to stick around here beating a dead horse and waiting for a chance break or to return to Earth.

I don't know why you keep beating a dead horse."

Not to beat a dead horse, but why not mark the articles clearly?

On the subject of leadership, he said: "It's like beating a dead horse.

"Look, I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but you sure you're okay?"

No need to beat a dead horse, man.

Not every reminder of demonstrable lying is "beating a dead horse."

That's why it doesn't feel as if these films are beating a dead horse."

"Is it something about beating a dead horse?"

Maybe it's beating a dead horse at this point, but simplifying the product line seems like it would do wonders.

I won't beat a dead horse any further.

At some point it's going to become apparent to people in the courtroom that the jury is beating a dead horse."

"That's beating a dead horse to me," he said.

If Joe screamed and hollered, it would be like beating a dead horse."