Twitter is where reporters are hanging out all day and flogging their stories.

Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe. And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.

I won't flog a dead horse.

The captain had the unsuccessful mutineers flogged.

Tom was flogged three times.

You're flogging a dead horse.

There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.