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Flogging a dead horse. For other uses, see Flogging a dead horse (disambiguation). Flogging a dead horse (alternatively beating a dead horse, or beating a dead dog in some parts of the Anglophone world) is an idiom that means to continue a particular endeavour is a waste of time as the outcome is already decided.
Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian source. Compare Old Norse beysta (âto beat, threshâ) (whence Danish bÃ¸rste (âto beat upâ)). Compare also Swedish basa (âto beat with a rod, to flogâ) and Swedish bÃ¶sta (âto thumpâ)