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is flogging

  • present progressive
    of flog (3rd person singular).
    flog
    verb (used with object)
    to beat with a whip, stick, etc., especially as punishment; whip; scourge.

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That at least is the message from the retired experimental physicist Leon Lederman, who is flogging his Nobel prize medal.

From The Guardian ● May 27, 2015

A couple is flogging a collection of Care Bears, and so on.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2012

Dave Zabriskie is flogging himself like a rented mule!

From New York Times ● May 23, 2010

Washington is flogging the agencies in public, but the dirty little secret is that the government relies on ratings heavily and shows no sign of changing.

From Washington Post ● May 9, 2010

There is something respectable in the names of a Spanish fleet; and one feels that he is flogging gentlemen, at least, while he is at work on them.

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper