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Beating Off A Dead Horse 

To continue trying to beat off a horse when it clearly isn't going to work anymore due to lack of blood flow.
Dude: I was out beating off a dead horse last night, but may hand started to cramp up, so i just went home instead.

beating a dead horse 

It doesn't matter how much you want to continue riding beating a dead horse is not going to get you anywhere.

If something is already done and over with there is no point in still talking about it.

If something is already broken there is no point in trying to use it.
Someone breaks up with there girl/boyfriend and continues to bitch about them to there friends weeks later. That person is beating a dead horse, the relationship is over there is no point in thinking about it since the matter is already resolved with you having broken up.

Relationship = dead horse
Bitching about it = beating it

Trying over and over to start your car after you've been in an accident where it is clear that the car is not going to work.

Broken Car = dead horse
Trying to start it = beating it

kicking a dead horse 

1.Attempting to reopen a topic or subject that is already resolved 2.To waste time doing something that has already been attempted
"If you're trying to get back with Ryan, you're just kicking a dead horse. He got back together with Becky."

Fucking a Dead Horse

The only thing to do with a horse after you have beaten it.
Okay. We get it. Michael Vick is playing football again. Quit fucking a dead horse.
Fucking a Dead Horse by JamesBeam November 19, 2010

beating a dead horse 

When something is already dead, and you keep bring it up over and over again
counter strike is a dead horse that everybody should stop beating

beating a dead horse 

to continue to persue a situation that nothing is happening in.

taken from the act of whipping a horse to get it to move, even though it is dead, and aint going anywhere.
"sometimes I feel like I'm beating a dead horse"
"It's going nowhere, stop beating the dead horse"