shut / close the stable door after the horse has bolted

shut / close the stable door after the horse has bolted BrEto try to prevent something when it is too late and harm has already been done贼去关门，亡羊补牢

• House, Edward Mandell
• plethysmogram
• p-bromoaniline
• a stroke of work
• S.S.W.
• staging base
• forepeak
• legitimizer
• angle of thread
• go to any length/go to great lengths
• inthralment
• chin rest
• wear the [美国英语]pants
• gold-lettered signboard
• Wannier function
• calamondins
• viewiness
• dualising
• set free
• come good
• actuatest
• dynamotors
• tierced
• ennobled
• Kala-Azars
• retributory
• cephalosporiosis
• unnerves
• khakied
• swim like a stone
• lager lout
• compliers
• minimum crossing altitude
• Egypto-
• drivel about
• ensure sb against
• Waterloo ball
• coalfields
• cinema
• blat
• hessens
• punch-ups
• uncinate trophus
• Bahaus
• aristotype
• crater crack
• agreed
• dynamist
• indigenised
• nimiety
• railest
• gawk at
• foreknows
• poisons
• masterpiece
• contaminated runway
• prince of the world
• encourage ... in
• have something in reverence
• goethean
• Old Saxon
• in a high rack
• snorters
• dirtily
• eligibility
• rub down
• Equal Employment Opportunity
• forage acre
• in the bollocky
• thermionic valves
• front matter
• dug
• Porcupine River
• switch bar
• beyond the grave
• center tap
• fluoroscopies
• subduableness
• but then again
• self-regulating
• labradorites
• pro-choicer
• remarkability
• trilingually
• sole injecton
• tarriance
• paleogeophysically
• bluesman
• fertilely
• button up someone's purse
• to the full
• conium
• reverse feedback
• DPAS
• deco
• prev.
• purify something from
• angry white male
• gypseous
• demography