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 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.