flogging

  • 21flogging a dead horse — (UK) If someone is trying to convince people to do or feel something without any hope of succeeding, they re flogging a dead horse. This is used when someone is trying to raise interest in an issue that no one supports anymore; beating a dead… …

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  • 22Flogging the Horses — Infobox Album | Name = Flogging The Horses EP Type = EP Artist = SikTh Released = 2006 (UK) Recorded = 2006 Genre = Metal Length = 23:25 Label = Bieler Bros. Records (UK) Producer = Colin Richardson Reviews = Last album = Peep Show (2003) This… …

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  • 23Flogging a dead horse — For the Sex Pistols album, see Flogging a Dead Horse (album). Flogging a dead horse (alternatively beating a dead horse in some parts of the Anglophone world) is an idiom that means a particular request or line of conversation is already… …

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  • 24Flogging a Dead Horse — Infobox Album | Name = Flogging a Dead Horse Type = compilation Artist = Sex Pistols Released = 8 February 1980 Recorded = 1976 1978 Genre = Punk rock Length = 48:02 Label = Virgin Records Producer = Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5… …

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  • 25flogging a dead horse — (UK)    If someone is trying to convince people to do or feel something without any hope of succeeding, they re flogging a dead horse. This is used when someone is trying to raise interest in an issue that no one supports anymore; beating a dead… …

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  • 26Flogging a dead horse —   (UK)   If someone is trying to convince people to do or feel something without any hope of succeeding, they re flogging a dead horse. This is used when someone is trying to raise interest in an issue that no one supports anymore; beating a dead …

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  • 27flogging hammer — noun : a small sledgehammer used for driving a flogging chisel or for beating metal …

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  • 28flogging — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. lashing, beating, whipping, thrashing, caning, corporal punishment, giving lashes, horsewhipping, flagellation, flailing, stripes, using the cat o nine tails; see also punishment . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A… …

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  • 29flogging — flog|ging [ˈflɔgıŋ US ˈfla:gıŋ] n a punishment in which someone is severely beaten with a whip or stick …

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  • 30flogging — flog|ging [ flagıŋ ] noun count or uncount a punishment in which someone is hit many times with a stick or whip …

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