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Old 13-Nov-2007, 14:31
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last kicks of a diying horse what doed it mean?
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last kicks of a dying horse what does this mean?
last kicks of a dying horse

You should provide a sentence with this phrase in it so that we can put the phrase in a proper context.

"dying horse" is a metaphor for some problem that you think is solved and over with.
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last kicks" refers to issues that still remain to be resolved before the problem can be completely ended.
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