Flogging a dead horse

A man sits atop a dead horse in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The idiom "to beat a dead horse" originated from the fact that flogging a dead horse will not compel it to do useful work.

Flogging a dead horse (or beating a dead horse in American English) is an idiom meaning that a particular effort is futile.


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