On May 10, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Arnaud Nicolet wrote: > Le 11 mai 07 à 01:06 Matin, Terry Ford a écrit: > >> PS. No use flogging a dead horse either. ;-) > > It's certainly funny, but I don't know much about expressions in > english (not my natural language). I would like to laugh, though ;-)
That would be appropriate. "Flogging a dead Horse" means simply this: "If someone is trying to convince people to do or feel something without any hope of succeeding, they're flogging a dead horse. This is used when someone is trying to raise interest in an issue that no- one supports anymore; beating a dead horse will not make it do any more work." <http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/flogging+a+dead +horse.html> Cheers, Terry _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
