beat a dead horse

“But when you’re awake for too long, then the system gets overloaded. At some point, you can’t beat a dead horse. If you’re asking your cells to remain active for 30 percent more time each day, cells die.”

“But when you’re awake for too long, then the system gets overloaded. At some point, you can’t beat a dead horse. If you’re asking your cells to remain active for 30 percent more time each day, cells die.”

“I just let him go. You can’t beat a dead horse.”

Not to beat a dead horse, but it’s hard to ignore the uncertainty at cornerback and not have some concern that the team’s best-laid plan — free agent Ahkello Witherspoon being worth the $4 million guaranteed they gave him — has already blown up.

I can still hear my dad saying in his Oklahoma drawl: “Honey, don’t beat a dead horse,” so I divorced him.