beat a dead horse
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Inflected Forms
beats a dead horse (present, singular)
beating a dead horse (participle, present)
beaten a dead horse (participle, past)
flog a dead horse (alternative)