Flog a Dead Horse 1100 Words You Need to Know Week 45 Day 1
Flog a Dead Horse 1100 Words You Need to Know Week 45 Day 1
to waste time and effort on something that does not have any chance of success, continue making an issue of something that is over, waste energy and time on an unalterable situation or lost cause, make an attempt to do something abortively, try to accomplish something which is impossible and unchangeable
Assessing the aftermath of Apple’s abortive effort to build its Irish datacentre, which was flogging a dead horse
The site Apple had earmarked as a prime location for one of its first non-US datacentres is up for sale, but what will become of the site and the community that supported the tech giant through its four-year battle to get the server farm built?
Source: https://www.computerweekly.com/
Antonym: succeed, accomplish, thrive
