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Barking up a dead horse

You’re not going to get anywhere with that idea – you’re barking up a dead horse.

A mixed idiom from these idioms

Source of this Mixed Idiom

A tip-off from @sayitwithsocial – social media consultant.

She pointed us to this brilliant twitter thread started by Joe Jeffries here:

My dad used to amuse himself in meetings by noting the mangled idioms of his management colleagues. Here’s some he found in his 1995 diary – verbatim and brilliant. #copywritersunite pic.twitter.com/NGhFmXxeYz— Joe Jeffries (@_joejeffries) January 12, 2018

Joe Jeffries
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