" dead horse "

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1: Australian rhyming slang for "tomato Sauce"

  * e.g.,  ... oi macka, give us some of that dead horse for me pie 

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1: Military term for an issue that has been adressed over and over and over again. Comes from the expression ”You’re beating a dead horse.”, meaning that talking about the issue is not going to change anything so drop it.

  * e.g.,  ... Captain Snuffy - “Men, I’ve called this meeting here today to stress to you the importance of cleanliness in the barracks and to discuss the upcoming deployment to Iraq. Soldiers need to sweep out their rooms daily and...” 

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2: Dead horse can also be used to describe words such as 1337, emo, and townie. There are already hundreds of similar defs for those terms, enough already their dead horses, stop beating them and move on.

  * e.g.,  ... (2 hours later) 

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1: in the salvage trade a dead horse is something you got for little or nothing because the former owner really wanted to get rid of it. a pallet of computer monitors the bank gave away is a dead horse. the trick is to sell the best parts as horse meat, the not so best parts as dog food,and give the rest away before it starts to stink and you have to pay to dispose of it. making money on dead horses is a skill that takes years to learn.

  * e.g.,  ... old computer parts,old computer monitors(disposal costs), paint (disposal costs), anything that you have to pay to get rid of. i got a load of paint for $1 a can. i hope the paint is useable, or that dead horse will really stink. 

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1: Having sex with someone after they have passed out.

  * e.g.,  ... She was just laying there so I had no choice but to dead horse. 

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1: Having sex with a limp penis

  * e.g.,  ... I couldn't get hard so I had to dead horse it in. 

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1: To describe a person or action

  * e.g.,  ... "dude you are so dead horse!" 

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2: Someone or something that is completely hopeless or useless.

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3: See also chump and dum arse

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1: an issue that doesn't matter anymore, especially one that is referred to repeatedly (see also beat a dead horse)

  * e.g.,  ... The whole thing is a dead horse. Get over it. 

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1: When sailors returned home from a voyage, they would be paid off in one lump sum. Most would then stay at shoreside establishments catering to sailors until their money ran out. When that happened, the owners ("crimps") would advance money so that the sailors could purchase more food, rum and "companionship" at that establishment at inflated prices.

  * e.g.,  ... Seamen Smith is still working off a dead horse until we hit our next port. 

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2: For centuries, it was common practice to give a sailor one month's wage in advance when they signed on for a voyage. This advance was intended for the purchase of needed clothing and other gear before departure. Often times this money went to repay the crimps. By the middle of the 19th century, captains were paying the advances directly to crimps for providing crew, bypassing the poor sailor. Thus, most sailors would be working only for their food for the first month of a voyage.

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3: This food was supposed to mostly consist of salt beef. Food provisioners, whenever they could get away with it (which was quite often), would substitute much cheaper and chewier salt horse for a portion of the salt beef. Even when salt beef was provided, some of it would have been in casks for years before being given to the crew to eat, making it as hard to chew as salt horse. It was quite usual for the crew to refer to their food as salt horse when it was bad, or dead horse if it was worse than bad.

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4: So, for the first month the sailors were working only for their food, their salt horse, their dead horse. They were said to be "working off their dead horse," and were referred to as dead horses themselves. Flogging them to get them to work harder was a waste of energy. Thus, "you can't beat a dead horse" to get any more work done.

 [ "dead horse" ]

1: Something which one is not supposed to beat.

  * e.g.,  ... Dead horses won't get up no matter how much you hit them. Honest. Leave the carcass alone, please. Ew. 

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1: In case you don't feel like reading all the babble up there, a dead horse when said in a forum means that the topic has been done so many times before- so be more original k?

  * e.g.,  ... This horse has been beaten so many times, it's already dead.