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Flogging a dead horse
Idiom about futile effort / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Flogging a dead horse (disambiguation).
Flogging a dead horse (or beating a dead horse in American English) 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.
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