lock the stable door after the horse is stolen イディオム
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.
Stolen fruit is the sweetest.
What is forbidden is the most tempting.
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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.lock the abiding aperture afterwards the horse is stolen
To try to anticipate or adjust a botheration afterwards the accident has already been done. My ancestor abdicate smoker afterwards he was diagnosed with lung cancer, but I'm abashed he's locking the abiding aperture afterwards the horse is stolen.Learn more: after, door, horse, lock, stable, stolenlock the barn/stable aperture afterwards the horse has bolted/is stolen, to
To booty precautions afterwards accident has been done. This proverb, begin in abounding languages, aboriginal appeared in a French accumulating of ca. 1190 and begin its way into a Middle English manuscript, Douce MS, by about 1350. It has been again anytime since. Stanley Walker poked fun at it (The Uncanny Knacks of Mr. Doherty, 1941): “He bound the abiding aperture while they were putting the barrow afore the horse.”Learn more: after, barn, bolt, door, horse, lock, stable
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