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单词 shut/close the stable/barn door after the horse has bolted
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shut/close the stable/barn door after the horse has bolted

to be so late in taking action to prevent something bad happening that the bad event has already happened

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Late

  • behind
  • behindhand
  • belated
  • delayed
  • door
  • down to the wire idiom
  • late
  • late developer
  • late in the day idiom
  • latecomer
  • latest
  • miss
  • owl
  • schedule
  • tardy
  • the eleventh hour idiom
  • the last minute idiom
  • time
  • uncivilized
  • wire

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