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flog
/ ڱɒɡ /
verb
- tr to beat harshly, esp with a whip, strap, etc
- slang.tr to sell
- intr (of a sail) to flap noisily in the wind
- intr to make progress by painful work
- to steal
- flog a dead horse
- to harp on some long discarded subject
- to pursue the solution of a problem long realized to be insoluble
- flog to deathto persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it
Derived Forms
- ˈڱDzԲ, noun
- ˈڱDz, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- ڱDz·· adjective
- ڱDz· noun
- ··ڱDz verb (used with object) overflogged overflogging
- un·ڱDz·· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of flog1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of flog1
Idioms and Phrases
see beat a dead horse .Example Sentences
He began by timing the ball to all corners of Lahore before flogging England's bowlers whenever they dropped too short.
He flogged England for six sixes - the third bringing up his first ODI century in 77 balls and the sixth sealing the highest successful chase in a global 50-over tournament.
Nigeria's authorities have officially declared the Lakurawa armed group - which flogs people for listening to music - a terrorist organisation and banned it across the country.
Eastman has advocated a reconsideration of birthright citizenship — or as I wrote in 2020, “flogging this dead horse” — for years.
Posters to flog tournament tickets would invariably display her image.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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