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."

by Single Mingling Pringle May 11, 2014

beating the dead horse

Coming from many game forum boards, beating the Dead horse is a term used to describe a topic that has been debated/discussed to death.

FFXIGamer1: WHICH JOB IS BEtTER, pld or nINja??!?

FFXIGamer2: Stop beating the f*cking dead horse....

by Rellinger April 6, 2005

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.

by JamesBeam November 19, 2010

dead horse

Australian rhyming slang for "tomato Sauce"

oi macka, give us some of that dead horse for me pie

by Jambles June 28, 2006

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

by Kyle Biddle August 2, 2004

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"

by ChipmunkOnKetamine November 7, 2009

dead horse

Military term for an issue that has been adressed over and over and over again. Comes from the expression ”You’re beating a dead horse.”, meaning that talking about the issue is not going to change anything so drop it.

Dead horse can also be used to describe words such as 1337, emo, and townie. There are already hundreds of similar defs for those terms, enough already their dead horses, stop beating them and move on.

Captain Snuffy - “Men, I’ve called this meeting here today to stress to you the importance of cleanliness in the barracks and to discuss the upcoming deployment to Iraq. Soldiers need to sweep out their rooms daily and...”
(2 hours later)
..and also I would like to be informed in writing when the troops have taken out the trash in the recreation room, and"
Sergeant – "SIR, WE’VE GOT IT!! It’s a dead freaking horse can we move on to other issues now?"

by Trav October 27, 2004