flogging russian

• драть

  tear, tear up, tear to pieces, strip off, tear off, fleece, irritate, flog, thrash, give a flogging

• отодра́ть

  give a sound flogging

  tear off, rip off

• по́рка

  flogging, thrashing, lashing, birching, whipping, strapping, undoing, ripping, unstitching, unpicking

• бичева́ние

  flagellation, flogging, castigation

Examples

• Вы напрасно тра́тите вре́мя.You're flogging a dead horse.
• Ты зря стара́ешься.You're flogging a dead horse.