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dead horse
noun
Definition of DEAD HORSE
: an exhausted or profitless topic or issue —usually used in the phrases beat a dead horse and flog a dead horse
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First Known Use of DEAD HORSE
1830
Rhymes with DEAD HORSE
clotheshorse, concourse, crash course, dark horse, dawn horse, deforce, discourse, divorce, dray horse, endorse, enforce, extrorse, golf course, gut course, high horse, introrse, iron horse, midcourse, of course, Old Norse, one-horse, packhorse, perforce, post-horse, racecourse, racehorse, recourse, redhorse, remorse, resource, retrorse, sawhorse, sea horse, stringcourse, trial horse, unhorse, warhorse, wheelhorse, Whitehorse, workhorse
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