单词 | flog something to death |
释义 | flog something to deathflog something to death British EnglishBrE informalREPEAT to repeat a story or use an idea etc so often that people become bored with it 令人厌烦地重复某事 They take a good idea and flog it to death. 他们有了一个好主意就会念叨个没完。 Examples from the Corpus flog something to death• It was a good story a month ago, but the newspapers have really flogged it to death.• The beheading of murderers, the flogging and stoning to death of adulterers, the circumcision of women? → flog something to death at flog(2) |
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