flogging

Now if all that sounds as if I'm simply flogging the ideological merits of the FSUW, well, you're dead right.

You are flogging a dead horse trying to persuade him to accept the new concepts-he is absolutely an old fossil.

You'll be flogging a dead horse if you keep trying to get Walter to make a contribution, you know mean he is.

This is just a less than charismatic new way of flogging a few ephemeral images.

To help make up the difference, they rely on expropriating land from farmers and flogging it to bullish property developers.

flogging her guts out in London's worst record store.

It did not need the medium of a flogging to produce that effect on the master.

a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners.

John takes his new car seriously. If you try to persuade him to lend it to you, you are flogging a dead horse.

John takes his new car seriously. if you try to persuade him to lend it to you, you are flogging a dead hose.

And that led the chiefs to do what's called flogging the land: overstocking the land, forcing tenant farmers into dependency.

The human rights organisation Amnesty International condemned the sentence, describing flogging as a cruel punishment.

During boom years, when flogging stock was all but assured, clients moaned when paying the fees.

The fact that I let myself get so upset over my flogging is a prime example of "disconnected thinking" .

Once an idea has been floated as convincingly as I think it needs to be, I don't want to go on flogging it forever!

He is starting to sound, I laugh, like one of those adverts on daytime TV flogging dodgy loans.

While they initially were sentenced to imprisonment and flogging, they were later pardoned and released.

Sales have fallen sharply, as developers wait in vain for demand to pick up rather than flogging their properties at a discount.

There is nothing like a public flogging to get the people on your side.

Forward-thinking stuff, but then, she was flogging prophecies.

AT THE peak of India's strange insurance hysteria a few years ago there were almost 3m people flogging life-insurance policies.

Anger hated foreigners, yoga, whales, speed limits and pineapple on pizza; he liked flogging, electrocutions and beer.

Heathcliff received no flogging , but he was told that the first word he spoke to Miss Catherine should ensure a dismissal.

And right now, the local paper may be flogging your details to a news agency.

we discussed some incidents that had happened long ago . it was really flogging a dead horse.

Back in the old day, they gave the ill-behaved man a flogging.

To drive, force, or compel by flogging, lashing, or other means.

"The old model of just flogging workers may have worked for the slave ships, but with the brain it just doesn't work. "

You're flogging a dead horse by asking him to lend you money.

Every major road is lined with hawkers flogging Black Star flags, and every newspaper tells why Ghana must win.

Dario, it's like flogging a dead horse. . . Every time I call. . . I get the same story.

stop asking me . you ' re flogging a dead horse . i don ' t want to go and i ' ve told you that a hundred times.

fair- flogging, fasting, putting that thing with the teeth around my thigh, like.

You are flogging a dead horse by asking him to lend you money.

These days , even hotels are flogging the notion that anything's better if you cyberize it .

These days, even hotels are flogging the notion that anything is better if you cyberize it.

Flogging bankers in public, by contrast, is a sport that everybody can enjoy.

He was flogging his horse in a very cruel way.

Any animal caught singing it was given a flogging on the spot.

In 1994 he was sentenced to an 18-month suspended prison term for shaving and flogging an official sent to administer an indebted farm.

As well as a high-touch service, they have a tradition of delivering advice to clients rather than simply flogging products to them.

a strip of leather used in flogging .

Stop flogging yourself over mistakes over the past.

violently urging on by whipping or flogging.

You'll never persuade him! You're flogging a dead horse.

Last, but not least, the ongoing Goldman Sachs flogging before the Senate has been grabbing headlines all week.

That's a flogging offense, professor.

Taxpayers want their money back, but flogging jewels such as AIA may not be the best way to maximise value.

And how's that flogging thing workin' for ya?

Kyle: He's really flogging a dead horse now.

He received a good flogging.

Nor is it clear that flogging hardware is a requirement for securing Saudi co-operation in security matters.

Although he will be flogging his blood, the hunger strike to his knees trembling, he still can not escape his conscience.

You'll be flogging a dead horse if you try to change her mind about it.

Contradictions in Legal Text--A Study of the Document Concerning Flogging During the British Lease of Weihai

but it referred to flogging in the medieval times

Analysis of frequency and intensity of child punishment by flogging and its influential factors in rural areas

Flogging fashion for the fuller figure

Flogging in the works of Sima Qian