Meaning of beat a dead horse | Babel Free

Definitions

To persist or continue far beyond any purpose, interest or reason.

idiomatic

Examples

“After having shown us three hours of instructional and safety videos, the inspector was simply beating a dead horse by telling us to buckle up as we got into the van.”

“The library director believes the argument about “professionalism” is a “dead horse we should stop beating.””

“A friend, the political scientist Irving Bernstein, told me that political scientists and historians are inclined to regard the question of objectivity as a dead horse that one should stop beating, and maintained that it is not the scholar but the lay person who has problems with objectivity.”

“I won’t stop beating this dead horse until (male) TV executives stop this sexist practice.”

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