1.   Glitter is Dot Cotton in foot-thick panstick, flogging a dead horse until its bones are a pile of dust.

2.   I recall... the shocking distension and protrusion of the eyeballs of dead men and dead horses.

3.   If something is carried on then it is flogging a dead horse or blind ambition.

4.   The Sioux might eat a dead horse, but would never kill one for food.

5.   They seem to be flogging a dead horse.

6.   Am I beating a dead horse?

7.   And at the risk of exhuming a long dead horse, I found myself briefly thinking of TCU.

8.   And no matter how hard Kamsky flogged the dead horse, he could not get anything out of it.

9.   And there are whole scenes, including an extended bathroom soap-on-a-rope joke, that play like a dead horse.

10.   And yes, it is unfair to lump the Twin Cities with a dead horse like Montreal just because neither market cares to build a luxury-box palace.