Idiom of the Day

💥to beat a dead horse.

✍🏾Definition:
to keep on doing something after there is no point in doing so

❗️Examples:

🔺You're just beating a dead horse. He's never going to change his mind.
🔺I finally realized that I was beating a dead horse. Nothing I could say was going to make any difference.
🔺Relying on new or existing manufacturing jobs to save the day down the road isn't just beating a dead horse, it's laying down beside it.
🔺I also think that we may have reached the point of beating a dead horse ... so with thanks and love to all, I now respectfully close this thread.

📝Explanation:
The word beat in this idiom means hit. An alternative expression is to flog a dead horse. (Hitting a dead horse is not going to make it move!)
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