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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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      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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      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. 


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      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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      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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      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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      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" 

       [ "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." 


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      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!" 

       [ "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. 

       [ "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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      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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