Posted by Lou Pilder on August 14, 2006, at 23:40:50
In reply to Re: Cuz I'd be beating a dead horse!!!!! :-) » Lou Pilder, posted by muffled on August 14, 2006, at 23:35:13
m,
I had a different idea of the idiom,[...beating a dead horse...]
You see, that was used in the 1800's by a British Parliment speaker when he said that the bill that he was talking about in Parliment would not pass. He said it was like flogging a dead horse.
But the bill passed!
Lou
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