From: Peter A. Slaughter (peterslaughter@englisc.karoo.co.uk)
Date: 04/15/02-02:26:15 AM Z
Hi
I have read the e-mail's referring to dead fish/horse. I Britain the term is 'you cannot flog a dead horse'. Flogging was a punishment usually inflicted with a cat-o-ninetails so I assume what was being said was that having beaten the horse to death it was of no further use. But in Britain there is another meaning for the word flog. If you sell something off, usually cheaper then its full price, then you have flogged it. So in Britain anyway we can flog a dead horse.
Wes hal
Peter
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