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flog
verb- to endorse, to promote, to sell US, 1925
- I hadn’t got any idea what time it was, because I’d flogged me watch the day before. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 54, 1964
- [H]e flogged some drills to a bloke. — The Sweeney, p. 50, 1976
- Hymie used to print and sell his own tip sheet titled Gift Horses at Bay Meadows until cataracts sealed the dapper little horse savant within a white waxen world and he was reduced to flogging forms. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 58, 1990
- — Times Educational Supplement, p. 43, 6 July 2001: “Eminem and Del Boy flog skills on the market”
- By owning the Blue Jays and Sportsnet, considered a smaller sports channel compared with rival TSN, that gives (Rogers) a great platform to showcase their team, which also means that you have a captive audience which you can then flog to advertisers[.] — Calgary Sun, p. 45, 7 July 2001
- to sell, especially illicitly AUSTRALIA, 1925
- And about using illegal mesh to kill undersized fish to flog to the shops for fish cakes — John O’Grady, Gone Fishin’, p. 25, 1962
- They’re all past masters at flogging the Australian gimmick[.] — Barry Humphries, A Nice Night’s Entertainment, p. 73, 1962
- to steal AUSTRALIA, 1962
- I’m sorry I couldn’t ring but some arsehole flogged the fucking phone. — Martin Cameron, A Look at the Bright Side, 1988
- She legs it to the playground equipment in case I try to flog her flagon. — Glyn Parry, Mosh, p. 49, 1996
- to go with much effort UK, 1925
- — John Ayto, The Oxford Dictionary of Slang, p. 378, 1998
- to have sex BAHAMAS
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 78, 1982
- in drag racing, hot rodding and motor racing, to push the car to its limit or beyond US
- — John Edwards, Auto Dictionary, p. 62, 1993
▶ flog a dead horse
to work hard to little or no purpose UK, 1872- The Republicans rule the roost in the US, while the EU is dominated by the right. This begs the question: are those centre-left leaders who remain flogging a dead horse? — The Guardian, 25 April 2003
▶ flog the bishop
(of a male) to masturbate US
A variation on BASH THE BISHOPSpanking the monkey. Flogging the bishop. Choking the chicken. Jerking the gherkin. — American Beauty, 1999 Another way to say “the boy is masturbating” [...] Flogging the bishop[.] — Erica Orloff and JoAnn Baker, Dirty Little Secrets, p. 65, 2001▶ flog the infidel
(of a male) to masturbate US- Another way to say “the boy is masturbating” [...] Flogging the infidel[.] — Erica Orloff and JoAnn Baker, Dirty Little Secrets, p. 65, 2001
▶ flog your chops
to wear yourself out AUSTRALIA- — Alex Buzo, Norm and Ahmed, 1968
▶ flog your dong
(used of a male) to masturbate US- Meanwhile, every Tom, Dick and Dick outside is trying to flog my dong. — Airheads, 1994
▶ flog your dummy
(used of a male) to masturbate US, 1922- I’ll be seeing you in March in Paris and don’t flog your dummies, and save some girls for me. — Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957–1969, p. 101, 10 December 1957: Letter to Allen Ginsberg
- [W]hen I left I told him not to flog his damn dummy too much[.] — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, p. 178, 1958
- What if he blabs to the Daily News? ASST HUMAN OPP’Y COMMISH FLOGS DUMMY. — Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, p. 197, 1969
- Then he confesses that when he was little he flogged his dummy maybe a thousand times and didn’t tell the priest in confession. — Joseph Wambaugh, Lines and Shadows, p. 129, 1984
▶ flog your guts out
to wear yourself out UK- In fact the pair of them were flogging their guts out for as much as they could have got from National Assistance for the asking. — Derek Bickerton, Payroll, p. 29, 1959
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