what does the expression "beat the dead horse" mean?
137797
Beating the dead horse means that even tho you are trying to get that dang horse to go, he won't, cause he's dead. It means you are really trying to do something but you keep getting the same results, no matter what you do.
345401
It's slang, actually.\n\n"Go away, dude! I'm with someone else. Go die far.  Now, we go our separate ways."\nIt's not a literal translation, I tried to keep the sense and the meaning. Basically, this person is  ending a relationship with someone who keeps insisting.
359857
There is an urban legend concerning a code for mounted statues, whereby the horse's hooves are supposed to indicate how the rider met his end. One hoof off the floor would indicate the rider died of wounds received in battle, or perhaps was just wounded in battle; two hooves off the floor would indicate the rider was killed in battle. An examination of the equestrian statues in most major European cities shows this is not true. If it ever was true, the practice appears to have died out in the 19th century.\n\nI do not believe it means anything.
82286
Are you sure you don't mean "dark horse?"  The term refers to one (whether horse or person) who is unlikely to win; one the odds makers predict is very unlikely to win, to be precise.
154492
a horse has two protections from cold, long hair and fat. I guess that the proverb means something to the effect of "there is always a way" or maybe we always have the means to cope with adversity?
9270
it simply means, "old habits die hard"\nonce set in your ways, think about it, no other person's way is "right".
510470
It contradicts itself i.e. "mi descanso es pelear" it says i will rest fighting. all of this because for his loved one he will do whatever its necessary even if he has to see the sea in the mountain or if his bed should be some hard rocks .\n\ntranslated would be something like this:\n\nMy (arreos)* are the arms,\nmy rest is to fight,\nmy bed the hard rocks,\nmy sleep to guard.\nThe rotten ones are dark,\nthe roads are to  be used,\nthe sky with its changes\nit has to damage me,\nwalking from mountain to mountain\nby borders of the sea,\nto prove if in my luck\nthere is place where to walk.\nBut for you, my lady,\neverything has to be tolerated.\n\n* don´t know the word in english for arreos but these are the ropes used in the horses to pull a wagon so i'd say it's like the things that motivate you or pull you to do something
188560
What does this have to do with horse racing?
23392
This is what I found: "It sounds as if this expression for surviving or overcoming nearly insuperable obstacles ought to have a nautical origin, doesn’t it? But there’s no evidence to support that.\n\nIt appears in print around the beginning of the twentieth century. The first example I’ve found is from 1901, but there is a substantial set in the books and newspapers later in that decade, showing that it had by then become widely known. The first form that appears is hell and high water; the form you give, which is now standard, comes along several decades later, together with through hell and high water and variations.\n\nThe setting of many of the earliest examples strongly point to cattle ranching as the origin, in particular the driving of cattle to railheads in the mid West in the latter part of the nineteenth century. In 1939 Paul Wellman published a book with the title Trampling Herd: the Story of the Cattle Range in America in which he wrote: “ ‘In spite of hell and high water’ is a legacy of the cattle trail when the cowboys drove their horn-spiked masses of longhorns through high water at every river and continuous hell between.”\n\nAn article about an old-time cattleman that appeared in the Washington Post in November 1905 supports this: “He prospered in those palmy days until he became the largest cattle owner in the territory and felt able to take his regular blowout in St Louis, until 1884, when, between the alien land law, drought and rustlers, the “hell and high water of the cattlemen,” he ... walked out of the Kansas City stock yards a few hundred thousand dollars worse off and no cattle worth putting an iron on, much less pulling grass by hand to feed.”"
515609
It's a slang term and means to step up to a challenge; to toughen up; to make something happen, as opposed to just bitching about it; taking charge of a situation. The feminine variation of "cowboy up."\n\nFor example:\n\nMaria: My boyfriend treats me like shi*, but I think I'd be alone without him.\n\nJoanie: It's time to cowgirl up and leave his sorry as$.\n\nP.S. Cowgirl up or shut up! lol
499338
Guo ryhmes with whoa (like to tell a horse to stop)\nlan rhymes with man
607325
It means.." Kill the Americans"... This is a motto that President Vincente Fox is pushing in Mexico.
494892
If you search for the word on Google, in addition to references to the horse, you also get lots of sites from Estonia.  However, the Estonian dictionaries I can find do not have a translation listed.  Sorry.
180606
It was originally cowboy jargon.  The person who had to ride behind the cattle herd when it was being driven to market was called the drag rider, and he was said to "eat dust" (a herd of cattle can stir up a respectable cloud of dust, visible for miles.)  When you were in a hurry and drove the animals too hard, without time enough to stop and graze and drink, the weaker ones collapsed, typically forward onto their knees.  They "bit the dust."
1138519
It is metaphorical not to be taken literal. All of the horses of the apocolypse are. They represent something, John had saw them in a vision, so yes I could say we believe in the horse of death, but dont actually believe a pale horse is going to come leaping down from the sky and kill millions of people. If you havnt hear of this it is found in the final book of the bible, Revelation. The horse of death could represent many things, from diseases, natural disasters, and almost anything else that kills people.
79395
actually this question was AOL's home page the other day I believe. The saying came from the horse racing track. People would offer a tip and a horse that would win and if was an insider ( jockey, trainer, ect)  or reliable tip they would say it came "straight from the horses mouth"
250458
It makes no sense, I speak spanish. The translation could be something like "I love the bullets killed" that would be literally but there is a syntax error.\n\nWhere did you here it? What's the context?