piiskata kuollutta hevosta

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

1. 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.