verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
death
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The beheading of murderers, the flogging and stoning to death of adulterers, the circumcision of women?
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Being Ymor's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces.
horse
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This is a dead draw, but Karpov flogged a very dead horse until move 86 before acquiescing in the inevitable.
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They seem to be flogging a dead horse .
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Glitter is Dot Cotton in foot-thick panstick, flogging a dead horse until its bones are a pile of dust.
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If something is carried on then it is flogging a dead horse or blind ambition.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't let him flog you his car -- he's had endless trouble with it.
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He's been on a lot of TV shows, flogging his new book.
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People caught breaking the liquor laws may be flogged.
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There was a man at the market who was flogging watches for £10 each.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The age-old argument that poverty breeds crime is again being flogged by social engineers.
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They must have been flogging it somewhere pretty regularly.