lock the barn door after the horse is stolen

[lock the barn door after the horse is stolen] 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./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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