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Flogging a dead horse. Attempting to revive a question already settled. John Bright used the phrase in the House of Commons.
Working for a dead horse. Working for wages already paid.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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