- dead horse
- noun Date: 1830 an exhausted or profitless topic or issue — usually used in the phrases beat a dead horse and flog a dead horse
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Dead Horse — may refer to: Dead Horse (band), an American thrash metal band Dead Horse (song), a 1991 Guns N Roses song Deadhorse, Alaska, a town Dead horse , Australian rhyming slang for tomato sauce Dead Horse (album), a 2005 album by Cassetteboy Beating a… … Wikipedia
Dead horse — Dead Dead (d[e^]d), a. [OE. ded, dead, deed, AS. de[ a]d; akin to OS. d[=o]d, D. dood, G. todt, tot, Icel. dau[eth]r, Sw. & Dan. d[ o]d, Goth. daubs; prop. p. p. of an old verb meaning to die. See {Die}, and cf. {Death}.] 1. Deprived of life;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Dead Horse — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Dead Horse es una canción de la banda norteamericana de hard rock, Guns N Roses. Aparece en 1991, en el álbum Use Your Illusion I. La composición comienza con una introducción acústica, que destaca una figura rítmica … Wikipedia Español
dead horse — dead′ horse′ n. 1) cvb something that has ceased to be useful or relevant 2) cvb idi beatorflog a dead horse, to persist in pursuing or trying to revive interest in a project or subject that has lost its usefulness or relevance • Etymology: cvb… … From formal English to slang
dead horse — I. /dɛd ˈhɔs/ (say ded haws) noun Colloquial tomato sauce. {rhyming slang} II. /dɛd ˈhɔs/ (say ded haws) Colloquial –noun 1. a debt. –phrase 2. flog a dead horse, to make useless efforts, as in attempting to raise interest in an issue …
dead horse — noun 1. : advance wages for work working off a dead horse : an old debt paying for a dead horse 2. : an exhausted or profitless topic or issue arguing this question would be beating a dead horse compare dead dog … Useful english dictionary
dead horse — n. a dead issue, especially one that is referred to continually. (Often with beat, whip.) □ Forget it! Don’t waste time whipping a dead horse. □ The whole business is a dead horse. Forget it … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
dead horse — n. (colloq.) a topic that has been exhausted to beat a dead horse * * * [ ded hɔːs] (colloq.) [ a topic that has been exhausted ] to beat a dead horse … Combinatory dictionary
dead horse — 1. something that has ceased to be useful or relevant. 2. beat or flog a dead horse, to persist in pursuing or trying to revive interest in a project or subject that has lost its usefulness or relevance. [1820 30, Amer.] * * * … Universalium
dead horse — I Australian Slang tomato sauce, ketchup II Cockney Rhyming Slang Sauce Pass the dead horse … English dialects glossary
