FLOG


Meaning of FLOG in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

death

The beheading of murderers, the flogging and stoning to death of adulterers, the circumcision of women?

Being Ymor's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces.

horse

This is a dead draw, but Karpov flogged a very dead horse until move 86 before acquiescing in the inevitable.

They seem to be flogging a dead horse .

Glitter is Dot Cotton in foot-thick panstick, flogging a dead horse until its bones are a pile of dust.

If something is carried on then it is flogging a dead horse or blind ambition.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Don't let him flog you his car -- he's had endless trouble with it.

He's been on a lot of TV shows, flogging his new book.

People caught breaking the liquor laws may be flogged.

There was a man at the market who was flogging watches for £10 each.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

The age-old argument that poverty breeds crime is again being flogged by social engineers.

They must have been flogging it somewhere pretty regularly.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.