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Finnish
Etymology
piiskata (“to whip”) + kuollutta < kuollut (“dead”) + hevosta < hevonen (“horse”); probably English influence, i.e. translated from the English idiom.
Verb
piiskata kuollutta hevosta
- to flog a dead horse, beat a dead horse
Conjugation
See piiskata. kuollutta hevosta is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.