ambulance at the bottom of a cliff

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A futile or post factum answer to a problem. derogatory,figuratively
    — Funny place for the social, for the insects to start caring / Just an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff

词源

A variation on the Joseph Malins' 1895 poem "The ambulance down in the valley," where the need for an ambulance would be removed by a fence on the cliff.
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