noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
public
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The public flogging anticipated at the annual general meeting of the City watchdog, Fimbra, may well fail to materialise.
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It's not known when the public flogging will be carried out.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be flogging a dead horse
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If something is carried on then it is flogging a dead horse or blind ambition.
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They seem to be flogging a dead horse.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But bring back flogging - abolished as recently as 1861 - they could, and did.
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Man United's owners the Edwards family made his fortune flogging rotten meat to school kitchens.
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Melville was outraged by the floggings administered to the seamen.
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Officials had stressed that the proposed flogging would be to humiliate Mr Brown, not draw blood.
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There'd be a flogging or worse if they took her with stolen clothes.
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Though flogging was restricted, the length of sentences which lower courts were empowered to impose was doubled.
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Wearing eight layers of clothing including a duvet, I was almost pleasantly warm flogging up to the bottom of the crag.