"beat a dead horse" meaning in Anglais

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Verb

IPA: \biːt ə dɛd ˈhɔːs\, \biːt ə dɛd ˈhɔːs\, biːt ə dɛd ˈhɔɹs Audio: En-us-beat_a_dead_horse.ogg , En-au-beat a dead horse.ogg Forms: to beat a dead horse [infinitive], beats a dead horse [present, third-person, singular], beat a dead horse ou beaten a dead horse [participle, past], beating a dead horse [participle, present]
  1. Enfoncer une porte ouverte, s'acharner inutilement. Tags: figuratively, idiomatic
    Sense id: fr-beat_a_dead_horse-en-verb-NcuoZdgP Categories (other): Métaphores en anglais, Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: flog a dead horse

Inflected forms

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