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[Idiom] | "beat a dead horse"
1: to keep talking about a subject that has already been discussed or decided
2: to waste time and effort trying to do something that is impossible
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[ "beat a dead horse" ]
1: The act of pushing onward when a decision has already been made and will not change.
* e.g., ... Tod: I think we should eat tacos every night.
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[ "beat a dead horse" ]
1: the beating refers to the overusing of the "dead horse". Said horse is a metaphor for a joke, and the fact that it's no longer living implies that it's no longer funny
* e.g., ... person1:hey...is that a dead horse
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[ "beating a dead horse" ]
1: It doesn't matter how much you want to continue riding beating a dead horse is not going to get you anywhere.
* e.g., ... Someone breaks up with there girl/boyfriend and continues to bitch about them to there friends weeks later. That person is beating a dead horse, the relationship is over there is no point in thinking about it since the matter is already resolved with you having broken up.
[ "beating a dead horse" ]
2: If something is already done and over with there is no point in still talking about it.
* e.g., ... Relationship = dead horse
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3: If something is already broken there is no point in trying to use it.
* e.g., ... Bitching about it = beating it
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[ "beating the dead horse" ]
1: Coming from many game forum boards, beating the Dead horse is a term used to describe a topic that has been debated/discussed to death.
* e.g., ... FFXIGamer1: WHICH JOB IS BEtTER, pld or nINja??!?
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[ "beating a dead horse" ]
1: When something is already dead, and you keep bring it up over and over again
* e.g., ... counter strike is a dead horse that everybody should stop beating
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[ "beating a dead horse" ]
1: to continue to persue a situation that nothing is happening in.
taken from the act of whipping a horse to get it to move, even though it is dead, and aint going anywhere.
* e.g., ... "sometimes I feel like I'm beating a dead horse"
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[ "beat the dead horse" ]
1: An instance in which the "beater" of the horse will continue to try and make amusing comments until either
* e.g., ... The perfect example of beat the dead horse.
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2: A.) Somebody makes a "pity laugh" (this is usually the person who originally told the joke) or:
* e.g., ... MD: "Yo wassup homeslice! I was just chillin like a felon up in hurr."
[ "beat the dead horse" ]
3: B.) Everyone leaves.
* e.g., ... OM: "Oh, awesome."
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4: This is a common occurrence when a moderately funny person loses their game, and is convinced that they are not off of their game.
* e.g., ... MD: "Word it was so tite and of the hizzle son! Shit!"
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[ "beating a dead horse" ]
1: an act of sexual perversion combining bestiality, necrophilia and sado-mashocism.
* e.g., ... A government study was funded to study various sexual perversions: sado-masochism, necrophilia and bestiality. The study was soon halted however ... the researchers decided they were just beating a dead horse.
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[ "beat the dead horse" ]
1: To continue jacking off after ejaculation.
* e.g., ... Henry: "Yeah bro me and my friends were all sitting around a fire, just beating the dead horse!"
Joe: "Be careful man! If you beat the dead horse too much you could get a 90 degree angle cock from that!"
Henry: "You only get one life joe, live it up."
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[ "beating the dead horse" ]
1: Beating a dead horse is alot loke selling out- you just go a bit overboard with it. If people say you're beating a dead horse, you need to stop what you're doing ad re-evaluate your decisions.
* e.g., ... Man, Supernatural won't stop beating the dead horse until it stops shitting out money.
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