I bet if you ask a lot of people where the source of expressions that they use came from they be completely clueless.

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Wouldn’t beating something already dead make you even more sick since you find continuous pleasure inflicting imaginary pain on something already lifeless? (Making the assumption that you already killed the horse, while it was still alive of course, but i feel like it can apply even if it’s still dead)

I ate lemon rice( cooked) today and egg ( boiled), my colleague brought mutton ( tasted good) and puli sadam( tasted great), because I was feeling hungry I also ingested samosa ( triangular) and a cutlet ( circular). I hadn't pooped today ( no fibers in my food). Three hours after I ate I felt really nauseous and poopish, I thought I could hold it till I make it home, halfway home (in kilometres) I got too sick so I parked my car on the side of the road to puke( vomit) but it was too late, time was not my ally, I ended up barfing all over my stick shift( big flex) four times, the lime rice I ate came out in the same colour ( yellow), I felt a lot better after that, I feel feverish now

EXTREMELY succinctly, 30 to 40 people became intoxicated during a lunch at a restaurant in downtown Gubbio, apparently from fish crudities. And there was an explosion of fulminant and general diarrhea. Some people fainted from sickness and crapped their pants, others were shitting in every corner of the restaurant. Two drunkenly soaked people got behind the wheel to run home to take a shit: one rolled over and the other crashed into 3 cars, the intervening police found these with shit up to their shirts and inside the cars. Ambulances intervened. The echo of the events reached as far as the Marches.

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The only thing worse than beating a dead horse is betting on one.

So I should continue to drive home the point of one mistake, instead of constantly getting angry about a variety things…. Interesting

Thanks a lot, I'll keep this in mind :)

I got food poisoning twice, both times from 7-11 sandwiches

So you're saying that if you beat it hard enough you become more humane. Hmmm

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I think the meaning behind the phrase is that you’ve already beaten the horse to death, but you’re still beating it even though it’s dead. I mean it’s not a phrase to be taken literally but it came from somewhere.

My daughter and my wife share a birthday. I got a card for both of them when she was born. Don't know why, just felt like something I should have done years ago.

For the two-time gold medal-winning show jumper Big Star, a single straw of his semen will set you back about $1,200.

But it does tenderize the meat.

I'm surprised that there are this many people that don't understand

No need to be rude, I don’t recall being rude to you. If I came across that way, I apologize. 🙂

The opposite of beating a dead horse is beating a live horse.

The phrase, “beating a dead horse” means doing something that is accomplishing nothing.

So, beating a live horse means doing something that is accomplishing something.

The phrase has meaning because it’s implied the beater (or flogger) has just been doing something over and over again long passed the point of it being useful.

Yea, you seem capable of reading, but not comprehending. That doesn’t imply at all you were beating it until it died.

“The origin of the expression ‘beat a dead horse’ comes from the mid-19th century, when the practice of beating horses to make them go faster was often viewed as acceptable. To beat a dead horse would be pointless, as it wouldn't be able to go anywhere.”

https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/phrases/beat-a-dead-horse/#

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flogging_a_dead_horse

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You got it. Hopefully people will read this and understand.

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We send a card to the immediate family. Parents, siblings, and the little one. Maybe it's a cultural thing.