"trekken aan een dood paard" meaning in Dutch

{
  "etymology_text": "Literally pulling on a dead horse. While pulling on a live horse may result in the horse starting to walk in the direction it's being pulled in, a dead horse will never contribute to the effort to move in a particular direction.",
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  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "english": "Fred Mulder, Peter Jan Rubingh and Pieter van Steenbergen and Jean-Luc Zéguers of ABN Amro consider it wasting time on an endeavor that will never result in a desirable outcome. If it can't be done under the right conditions with the right partners, it might as well not be pursued at all.",
          "ref": "2010, Maarten van der Pas, Robert van den Oever, Spyker: een dollemansrit, Nieuw Amsterdam, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Fred Mulder, Peter Jan Rubingh en Pieter van Steenbergen en Jean-Luc Zéguers van ABN Amro vinden het trekken aan een dood paard. Als het niet op de juiste voorwaarden en met de juiste partners kan, dan maar niet.",
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        "wasting time and/or resources on an endeavor that is never expected to result in a desirable outcome"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) wasting time and/or resources on an endeavor that is never expected to result in a desirable outcome"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "dead on arrival"
        },
        {
          "word": "nonstarter"
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  "etymology_text": "Literally pulling on a dead horse. While pulling on a live horse may result in the horse starting to walk in the direction it's being pulled in, a dead horse will never contribute to the effort to move in a particular direction.",
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    {
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    {
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        {
          "english": "Fred Mulder, Peter Jan Rubingh and Pieter van Steenbergen and Jean-Luc Zéguers of ABN Amro consider it wasting time on an endeavor that will never result in a desirable outcome. If it can't be done under the right conditions with the right partners, it might as well not be pursued at all.",
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          "text": "Fred Mulder, Peter Jan Rubingh en Pieter van Steenbergen en Jean-Luc Zéguers van ABN Amro vinden het trekken aan een dood paard. Als het niet op de juiste voorwaarden en met de juiste partners kan, dan maar niet.",
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        "(figurative) wasting time and/or resources on an endeavor that is never expected to result in a desirable outcome"
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