Dead-horse Sentence Examples

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  • We didn't fall out of anything, we just ran out of road really, you ca n't flog a dead horse.

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  • They get x amount of money for three years, and they are just flogging a dead horse really.

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  • The means-tested CTB system has been a failure but they appear determined to keep flogging this dead horse.

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  • No amount of funding will breathe life into a dead horse.

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