2011年5月7日 · 2019 - the word flog has made it into Australian slang - quoting the Age newspaper article by Matilda Boseley from June 8, 2019: A Carlton supporter has been evicted from Marvel Stadium during Saturday's Blues vs Lions game for reportedly shouting abuse at an AFL umpire. 3AW has reported that the man was evicted from the stadium during half ...

2013年10月19日 · It's certainly valid to say "flogging a dead horse" to mean "selling a dead horse", but "flogging a dead horse" is an idiom meaning you're doing something pointless: whipping a dead horse won't make it move any faster.

2012年7月17日 · Stop beating banging your head against a wall, if you wish to avoid unsavoury animal-cruelty based clichés.. I think you were almost there since the usual form of the cliché in your question is flogging a dead horse.

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2017年12月19日 · Doubling back to Brockett's 1825 glossary, and an 1830 publication by Robert Forby (Vocabulary of East Anglia, a vocabulary which the title page advertises as having been collected in the last two decades of the 1700s), I observe that two other survivals (along with 'tan your hide' and 'lam') from the 18th century suggest the close association ...

I would tend to agree with tchrist here: flip-flops and thongs are not quite the same thing to me. The footwear Trevor describes (rubberised plastic plastic and toe-piece attached to a V-shaped strap that goes between first and second toe) are thongs (or beach sandals and similar), while the ones that have a wider strip running from left to right of the foot, but not going between any of …

The earliest closely relevant match I've been able to find for this expression is from a cartoon by Lt. B.E. Lodge, U.S. Navy, submitted for the All-Navy Cartoon Contest and published in All Hands: The Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin (November 1961) with the following caption:

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2017年5月22日 · To beat, flog, thrash. 1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Whale, to beat with a horsewhip or pliant stick. transf. intr. To do something implied by the context continuously or vehemently. a1852 F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1883) vi. 67 You remember that one that come round a spell ago a whalin' away about human rights.