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Re: Doublewidth Cyrillic for unhappy Japanese people

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Subject: Re: Doublewidth Cyrillic for unhappy Japanese people
From: Robert Brady <robert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:39:03 +0100 (BST)
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:

> Sorry, I don't understand your English.  My English-Japanese dictionary
> doesn't explain what is "dead horse".

"Beating/flogging a dead horse", is the full form the idiom.
<http://www.accentonterp.com/zineb20.html> defines it well as

 :The fruitless effort to accomplish something after it has already
 :failed, usually by re-opening a discussion or debate.

-- 
Robert Brady
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- Re: Doublewidth Cyrillic for unhappy Japanese people
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