humorous proverbs
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A dead horse doesn't eat, so it doesn't matter if it has grass to eat or not. If you're paying a cost to get something, you have to be mindful of what the cost is. Just like the horse, you can't enjoy it unless you're alive.
No good with a dead horse.
"When the horse is dead, get off" means you should not waste time on things that are not worth it. If the horse is dead, you can't ride it any more.
You did something the ultimately wasted your time. If you planted a field of grass, because you wanted to feed your horse, but your horse died, then you would have wasted your time with the grass. Because the horse is dead, you will have no need for the grass.
Although the situation may seem futile, the grass still serves as a source of nourishment for other animals and insects in the ecosystem. It also helps to prevent soil erosion and maintains the ecological balance of the environment, even if the horse is no longer able to benefit from it.
At the present time, people grow grass mostly for reasons that have nothing to do with horses, but there was a time when horses were the main method of human transportation, and the main use of grass was to feed horses and other grazing animals such as cows and sheep. This proverb warns against futile effort. If you no longer have any horses, perhaps you should not bother to cultivate grass. I could also say that if a candidate has dropped out of a race, you should not waste your time campaigning for that candidate. We need to act for reasonable purposes, so that we can accomplish something.
"shooting a dead horse"means that you are repeatedly doing or saying something that is pointless because of the fact that the said "problem" you keep addressing has already been resolved. this is comparable to shooting a dead horse because if the horse is already dead, shooting it again isn't going to make it any more dead. Plus that would be a tremendous waste of bullets...
the humans sometimes eat/kill the wolf and the bear. the wolf and the bear, if successful, eats the horse, but mainly the weak and/or old ones. the horse eats grass, dead grass, and bushes.(: hope this helps!
I have found that shredded paper and dried grass both work, although the grass must be dead.
It means when a solution comes after the problem. So there is no use for it anymore.
No. If the grass is dead it's dead.