flog
verbVerb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they flog | |
| he / she / it flogs | |
| past simple flogged | |
| past participle flogged | |
| -ing form flogging |
- [often passive] flog somebody
to punish somebody by hitting them many times with a whip or stick 鞭笞，棒打（作为惩罚） Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- publicly
- flog somebody to death
- (British English, informal)
to sell something to somebody 出售（某物给某人） - flog something (to somebody)
She flogged her guitar to another student. 她把吉他卖给另一个同学。 - flog something (off)
We buy them cheaply and then flog them off at a profit. 我们低价买下这些，然后卖出获利。 - flog somebody something
I had a letter from a company trying to flog me insurance. 我收到了一家公司的信，向我推销保险。
- flog something (to somebody)
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 鞭策死马；做徒劳无益的事
flog something to death
- (British English, informal)
to use an idea, a story, etc. so often that it is no longer interesting 多次重复（想法、故事等）而使人失去兴趣 The story has been flogged to death in the press. 这个故事在报纸上被大肆报道。