close the stable door after the horse has bolted

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To attempt to prevent a problem that has already occurred; to design and implement a preventive mechanism that is too late (after the first failure instead of before). idiomatic
    — We are now in an election period, with WhatsApp and closed Facebook groups being used, as we speak, in electoral campaigning, but the law has not changed since the DCMS Committee, on which I serve, raised these issues. We have yet another instance of shutting the door after the horse has bolted.

词形变化

closes the stable door after the horse has bolted present,singular,third-person closing the stable door after the horse has bolted participle,present closed the stable door after the horse had bolted participle,past closed the stable door after the horse had bolted past
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