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- How did the slang meaning of flog come about?
2019 - the word flog has made it into Australian slang - quoting the Age newspaper article by Matilda Boseley from June 8, 2019: A Carlton supporter has been evicted from Marvel Stadium during Saturday's Blues vs Lions game for reportedly shouting abuse at an AFL umpire 3AW has reported that the man was evicted from the stadium during half
- idioms - Flog meaning to sell in Flogging a dead horse - English . . .
It's certainly valid to say "flogging a dead horse" to mean "selling a dead horse", but "flogging a dead horse" is an idiom meaning you're doing something pointless: whipping a dead horse won't make it move any faster
- idioms - What is an alternative (more positive) analogy to beating a . . .
Stop beating banging your head against a wall, if you wish to avoid unsavoury animal-cruelty based clichés I think you were almost there since the usual form of the cliché in your question is flogging a dead horse
- Origin of the beatings will continue until morale improves
The earliest closely relevant match I've been able to find for this expression is from a cartoon by Lt B E Lodge, U S Navy, submitted for the All-Navy Cartoon Contest and published in All Hands: The Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin (November 1961) with the following caption:
- Origin of tan someones hide as in Im gonna tan your hide
Doubling back to Brockett's 1825 glossary, and an 1830 publication by Robert Forby (Vocabulary of East Anglia, a vocabulary which the title page advertises as having been collected in the last two decades of the 1700s), I observe that two other survivals (along with 'tan your hide' and 'lam') from the 18th century suggest the close association
- Origin of the phrase, Theres more than one way to skin a cat.
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- orthography - Waling vs wailing vs whaling upon - English Language . . .
To beat, flog, thrash 1790 F Grose Provinc Gloss (ed 2) Whale, to beat with a horsewhip or pliant stick transf intr To do something implied by the context continuously or vehemently a1852 F M Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1883) vi 67 You remember that one that come round a spell ago a whalin' away about human rights
- What is a single word to describe beating someone brutally?
Flog M-w com gives the following definition for the word:" to beat with or as if with a rod or whip " Wallop Again, referring to m-w com yields the following definitions: transitive verb 1 a : to thrash soundly : b : to beat by a wide margin : 2 : to hit with force : lambaste, trounce and sock are referenced as synonyms
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