transcription, транскрипция: [ flɒg ]
( flogs, flogging, flogged)
1.
If someone tries to flog something, they try to sell it. ( BRIT INFORMAL )
They are trying to flog their house.
VERB : V n
2.
If someone is flogged , they are hit very hard with a whip or stick as a punishment.
In these places people starved, were flogged, were clubbed to death...
Flog them soundly.
VERB : be V-ed , V n
• flog‧ging
(floggings)
He was sentenced to a flogging and life imprisonment...
N-VAR
3.
If you say that someone is flogging a dead horse , you mean that they are trying to achieve something impossible. ( INFORMAL )
PHRASE : V inflects