barn Idiom, Proverb

a barnburner

an exciting game, a cliff-hanger When the Flames play the Oilers it's a barnburner - a great game.

barnburner

(See a barnburner)

lock the barn door after the horse is gone

be careful or try to make something certain after it is too late Now he wants to try and fix his house but it is like locking the barn door after the horse is gone. There was already a flood and the damage is done.

lock the barn door after the horse is stolen

be careful or try to make something safe when it is too late If you try and prevent a flood after the rains have started it is like locking the barn door after the horse is stolen.

barnet

hair; from the Cockney rhyming slang barnet fair

barney

1. an arguement
2. a good-looking guy:"Check out the barney over there; he's a hottie!"

all around Robin Hood's barn

Idiom(s): all around Robin Hood's barn

Theme: EVERYWHERE

going somewhere not by a direct route; going way out of the way [to get somewhere]; by a long and circuitous route.
• We had to go all around Robin Hood's barn to get to the little town.
• She walked all around Robin Hood's barn looking for a shop that sold Finnish glassware.

Were you born in a barn?

If someone asks you this, it means that you forgot to close the door when you came in.

lock the barn door after the horse is stolen|after

To be careful or try to make something safe when it is too late.

A proverb. After Mary failed the examination, she said she would study hard after that. She wanted to lock the barn door after the horse was stolen.

barn

barn
see can't hit the broad side of a barn; lock the barn door after the horse has bolted.

can't hit the broad side of a barn

can't hit the broad side of a barn
Have very poor aim. For example, That rookie can't hit the broad side of a barn, let alone strike anyone out or, as put in The New Republic (February 19, 1990): “Their missiles couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.” This hyperbolic term, dating from the mid-1800s, at first denoted poor marksmanship. Around 1900 it also began to be used in baseball, for a pitcher with poor aim.

lock the barn door after the horse has bolted

lock the barn door after the horse has bolted
Also, lock the stable door after the horse is stolen. Take precautions after damage has occurred. For example, After the burglary they installed an alarm system, but it's locking the barn door, or Deciding to negotiate now after they've been fired—that's a matter of locking the stable door after the horse is stolen. These expressions of action that is useless because it comes too late have long been proverbs in many languages and first appeared in English in the mid-1300s.