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Dead Horse

«Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.»
Author: Arthur Baer | Keywords: alimony, Dead Horse
«And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Dead Horse, plucked, The Ashes
«FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.The savage dies --they sacrifice a horse To bear to happy hunting-grounds the corse. Our friends expire --we make the money fly In hope their souls will chase it to the sky. --Jex Wopley»
«At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Dead Horse, rebuke
«Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse»
«No use in flogging a dead horse»
Author: Proverb | About: Death and dying | Keywords: Dead Horse, flogged, flogging
«I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.»
Author: Rudyard Kipling | Keywords: Dead Horse, Dead Man, hog
«I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.»