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  beating a dead horse 
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Lord Matt
2007 Nov 17 [05:43 GMT -6]
If your horse was slow you would use the whip or riding crop to make it go faster (or at all). No mater how sick the horse was you could get a little more out of it with a sufficient beating. However there is no point beating a dead horse.
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steve
2005 Aug 07 [09:56 GMT -5]
Do something futile; belabor an issue that is no longer of interest.

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