0 to explain something more than necessary:
There's no need to belabour the point.
1 to hit someone or something hard and repeatedly:
2 to criticize someone
Additional comments regarding domains and crucial precedence relations follow, without belabouring obvious carry-overs from (55).
We belabour the point because it is important to understand this relationship, obfuscation of which continues to appear in the literature (see note 48).
Methane gas will drive cars and heat houses—but there is no need to belabour that point at this moment.
That seems to me to be a very odd thing to be belaboured for.
So it could seem as though it might almost be belabouring the point unnecessarily to parade our case once again.
We have listened with interest to this discussion and none of us wants to belabour the point.
Everyone is annoyed and looks for someone to belabour because of that disappointment.
But our main concern is not to dig any deeper into this or to belabour those who were concerned in this failure of communication.
