flog
verb /flɒɡ/
/flɑːɡ/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they flog | /flɒɡ/ /flɑːɡ/ |
| he / she / it flogs | /flɒɡz/ /flɑːɡz/ |
| past simple flogged | /flɒɡd/ /flɑːɡd/ |
| past participle flogged | /flɒɡd/ /flɑːɡd/ |
| -ing form flogging | /ˈflɒɡɪŋ/ /ˈflɑːɡɪŋ/ |
- [often passive] flog somebody to punish somebody by hitting them many times with a whip or stick
- He was publicly flogged for breaking the country's alcohol laws.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- publicly
- flog somebody to death
- (British English, informal) to sell something to somebody
- flog something (to somebody) She flogged her guitar to another student.
- flog something (off) We buy them cheaply and then flog them off at a profit.
- flog somebody something I had a letter from a company trying to flog me insurance.
Word Originlate 17th cent. (originally slang): perhaps imitative, or from Latin flagellare ‘to whip’, from flagellum ‘whip’.
Idioms
flog a dead horse
(North American English also beat a dead horse)
- (informal) to waste your effort by trying to do something that is no longer possible
flog something to death
- (British English, informal) to use an idea, a story, etc. so often that it is no longer interesting
- The story has been flogged to death in the press.