Dead Horse Quotes
When a point has already been made, twice over.
These dead horse quotes all lean on the same idiom, warning against repeating an argument long after it stopped landing. One speaker applies it to wrestling's authenticity debates, while another ties it to tired portrayals of the middle class in fiction. For related thoughts, see our Wooden quotes.
It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.
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I find the middle classes kind of boring. The middle class has kind of been beaten like a dead horse by fictional writers. It's old news, and literature is supposed to bring new news, and for me, I feel I...
When Steven Spielberg thinks you're the one, then I'll do anything. If you want me to put a dead horse on my head, I'll do it.
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Even a willingness to go along with an odd request, literally or figuratively, gets framed through this same worn-out expression. Explore more candid takes in our Tom Chapin quotes.
