The feedback is almost nil nowadays, and one does not want to flog a dead horse! |
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Heck, he could probably flog you a crummy endowment mortgage and a rubbish personal pension plan. |
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Fantastically beautiful place, once you plough through the hawkers outside desperately trying to flog you the little red book. |
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About 300 shops sell used wares, and heck, even the airport and post office flog the goods. |
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The captain says he ought to flog all of them, but because they surrendered early, he will make do with just a reprimand. |
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Now if it is barbaric to flog in school where it really should start, how can licks be of any help to a hard-back criminal? |
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I would whip up huge batches of sickly-sweet chocolate crispies and flog them along with weak orange squash in paper cups for 15p each. |
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Then someone doing a dull and witless job in Ireland rings and tries to flog me a new credit card. |
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Why was no effort made to seek community comment on Council's intention to flog off assets at fire sale prices? |
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And would somebody please verbally flog me for the alliteration in the last sentence? |
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Get a copy for that pal of yours who is thinking of taking up fly-fishing, and you'll flog him your old rod the day after. |
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Visitors are battered by a cacophony of cries by hawkers trying to flog a variety of the ubiquitous plastic trinkets and squeaking toys. |
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We were made to sit side by side at the table and flog our biographies like fishwives. |
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It's not like the old days when they'd flog someone one day and get beaten the next. |
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They were prepared to take the brasses off the door, to take the door off the hinges, and flog the lot. |
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When Kev and Mike come bearing gifts, they want to flog them down their local, promising the barmaid a cut of the profits. |
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These bottles bear witness to the multitude who tried to take advantage of the distinctive flask to flog off their own less-than-distinctive swill. |
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If you could just flog us lightly, we'd be ever in your debt. |
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The next phase of book marketing is online promotion, where authors can flog their books year round on their websites, before they're even released. |
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Despite thinking on the hoof, Britain's punners weren't afraid to flog a dead horse in a bid for jokes. |
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I don't mean to flog a dead horse, but now you're going on about leather writing surfaces. |
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They would beat them up and arrest some of them, and in jail they would flog them or sodomize them with Coca-Cola bottles. |
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Here are the three Furies: Desire, Mind and Evil Will who flog the guilty ones with whips which hiss as viperous tongues over them. |
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They gouge out people's eyes, they amputate limps, they hang people in public, they flog them to death, and they stone them to death. |
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Whatever happens, they'll obviously try to flog you a portfolio of pix, which could end up costing hundreds of pounds. |
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Britain's railways, the NHS, the education secretary's dignity – is there anything the Tories won't flog off for a bit of cash? |
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Japan's new prime minister has quickly jumped on the bandwagon, pledging to flog the products of his country's top companies. |
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A sailing yacht with nobody at the helm is an inherently unstable system, as it will immediately turn towards the wind until the sails flog. |
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It turns out in the end that Mohammad works for the camp site and just has a couple of bits of canvas he's trying to flog. |
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Then Jesus is attached to a column where they flog with whips provided with pieces of bones and lead points. |
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They had to flog it off to a bottom feeder at a distressed price. |
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Regret about the abolition of droit de seigneur and the right of feudal overlords to flog peasants may be comic, but it is hardly an interesting political philosophy. |
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Meanwhile, two teams of would-be Bargain Hunters pick up objets d' art at knock-down prices from their local antique fair and then try to flog them down the auction room. |
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But how hard is it to make a doll that looks like the picture of the doll you are using to flog the doll itself? |
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But now, in the present climate, the number is handy for the Pentagon to flog around town, so there it is. |
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The whole world admires Bond because it represents the key creative discovery that's been made since the turn of the millennium: that it is possible to flog a dead horse back to life. |
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Rather than flog a dead horse in Geneva, it is time to make progress in places where trade negotiators have momentum and politicians have interest. |
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A TICKET tout was banned from football matches for five years after being caught red-handed trying to flog seats to a crucial Liverpool clash. |
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By this summer, the civic centre will launch its own energy company, taking the heat produced by a giant local waste incinerator, and flog it to businesses in the area. |
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Yes, renovation is still hot, and in TV if it works flog it to death. |
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What jarred was the location: the Carpenters estate, next to the Olympic village, was long ago cleared of most of its residents as Newham council tried to flog the land. |
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Description: The 'cat of nine tails' was a whip used to flog soldiers. |
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Though duly recording them, Mr Bowker is less quick to flog Orwell for his human and journalistic failings, which included a tendency to self-pity, a certain mercilessness towards women and an inventive looseness with facts. |
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However, there is a saying that you should not flog a dead horse. |
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A cannon shot rings out, the spinnakers flog in the wind, and they're off! |
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Bernard-Henry Lévy, than whom in quality of mind and political courage there could scarcely be anyone more different from Sartre, was there to flog his approving study of the older philosopher. |
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He added that some soldiers used spears to flog civilians. |
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Most people can barely stay awake through talk of Mr Gordon's five economic tests, but Abdul has the perspicacity to see them as a chance to flog more chicken tikka bhunas. |
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