dead horse

noun

: an exhausted or profitless topic or issue

—usually used in the phrases beat a dead horse and flog a dead horse

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Courtesy Jim Bill Anderson In Hemphill County, which is located in the Panhandle, over a thousand missing or dead cattle have been reported, as well as several dead horses, goats and sheep. —

Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024 Perhaps this sounds like kicking a dead horse, since the DCEU is over, it’s been talked to death with regard to its failures, and now the problem of super-failure is every studio’s problem, including Marvel who just had the #1 worst franchise drop of all time. —

Mark Hughes, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024 But seven dead horses in a little more than a week? —

Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 7 May 2023 The new safety initiatives would have only impacted one of the 12 dead horses: Kimberley Dream. —

Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for dead horse