It’s a bit funny to me atleast, me and my dad “beat a dead horse” a lot, idk maybe we’re just bad at shutting up. But, we have an inside joke version of the expression called “scorching the dirt”
Basically “beat a dead horse” on extreme mode (very often and for long times) where we beated it long enough for it to decompose into dirt and one of us found a flamethrower (because flamethrowers are fun and I’ve always wanted to use one)
















