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BEATING A DEAD HORSE
BEATING A DEAD HORSE
ScnMaster
(
colloquial
)
trying to
get
satisfaction from something that cannot or
can
no longer give it. From a person who beats a horse to make it g o even though it is
dead
, thus
doing
something that is completely useless.
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