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Noun Concept
Categories: English-language idioms, Horse idioms, Articles with short description
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flogging a dead horse  Beat a dead horse  beating a dead dog  beating a dead horse  Dead horse issue
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Flogging a dead horse is an idiom meaning that a particular effort is futile, being a waste of time without a positive outcome, e.g. such as flogging a dead horse, which will not compel it to do useful work. Wikipedia
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Flogging a dead horse is an idiom meaning that a particular effort is futile, being a waste of time without a positive outcome, e.g. such as flogging a dead horse, which will not compel it to do useful work. Wikipedia
Common English idiom. Wikipedia Disambiguation
idiom which means a particular effort is a waste of time as there will be no outcome Wikidata
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idiom
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flogging a dead horse
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flogging a dead horse
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Beat a dead horse, beating a dead horse, Dead horse issue, feeding a fed horse, No sense beating a dead horse, To slay the slain
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beating a dead dog, beating a dead horse

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