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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.
First, we should define the term. To âhockâ or âhamstringâ a horse was to cut the sinew in the back legs so as to render the animal incapable of speed. Earlier, when the law of Moses was given, the Lord had forbidden Israel to âmultiply horses,â i.e., breed them (cf. Deuteronomy 17:16).