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Beat a dead horse
- ▪ waste energy on a lost cause or unalterable situation
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Idiom which means a particular effort is a waste of time as there will be no outcome
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Flogging a dead horse (or beating a dead horse in American English) is an idiom meaning that a particular effort is futile, being a waste of time without a positive outcome, e.g. such as flogging a dead horse, which will not compel it to do useful work. Wikipedia
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