dead horse
Example Sentences
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Just saying it once feels like I’m beating a dead horse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
It’s also largely responsible for the smell of the delicately-named dead horse arum, a relative of the so-called corpse flower, or titan arum.
From Salon ● May 31, 2025
As late as 10 p.m., the dead horse was left uncovered on the carpool lane on the 605.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
“I think you would like to have those players playing in an ideal world, but I feel like we’re sort of beating a dead horse in this media room a little bit,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
A good while later we rounded a curve and there it was again, just ahead, laying on its side like a dead horse.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
