flog a dead horse in English

waste one's time and effort

Use "flog a dead horse" in a sentence

1. It got renamed the "Dead Horse Trail."

2. The Breton is a horse breed in Red Dead Online

3. The gallant commander and his horse fell in a heap... the horse dead, the rider unhurt.

4. It's a dead certainty that this horse will win the race.

5. • This is a dead draw, but Karpov flogged a very dead horse until move 86 before Acquiescing in the inevitable

6. The horse lay motionless on the ground, as if dead.

7. Why did you put that dead man on the horse?

8. They are trying to flog their house.

9. Too terrified to move, the Artilleryman hides under his dead horse.

10. This, which is helicodiceros, is also known as dead horse arum.

11. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon.

12. We buy them cheaply and then flog them off at a profit.

13. A rather unpleasant and damp flog came in its place.

14. The seaman's ceremony was to celebrate having worked off the "dead horse" debt.

15. Flog Boomslange liquiform Aroostook deuterotokous deoxycorticosterone

16. They take a good idea and flog it to death.

17. Compare sell, vend, peddle , push and flog.

18. I had a letter from a company trying to flog me insurance.

19. The tired horse stopped dead in its tracks and turned its head around to give him a baleful stare.

20. Beatnikery beatnikism beatniks beato beats beats a dead horse beats around the bush beats down; Literary usage of Beatitude

21. We should be able to flog the car for a good price.

22. Jesus told Peter to feed his sheep not to flog them.

23. Flog your dog till somebody tells you what's happenin'.

24. I'm going to flog all my old video tapes.

25. How cruel was the man to flog his own son to death!