IIIhateusernames t1_jcthhh7 wrote on March 19, 2023 at 1:14 PM

Reply to comment by JamesR624 in Beating a dead horse is a lot more humane than beating a live one. by AtlasShrunked

It's both. The rider rides the horse to death and is still hitting it with the riding crop to try and get something else out of the horse, but it's dead.

The phrase is used to say that you've covered all the potential material of a conversation and that continuing is pointless.... like beating a dead horse to get more work out of it.

MinniesWorld t1_jcu5hbc wrote on March 19, 2023 at 4:17 PM

You got it. Hopefully people will read this and understand.

IIIhateusernames t1_jcuci1f wrote on March 19, 2023 at 5:04 PM

I'm surprised that there are this many people that don't understand

MinniesWorld t1_jcvgu57 wrote on March 19, 2023 at 9:34 PM

I bet if you ask a lot of people where the source of expressions that they use came from they be completely clueless.