Shut the stable door after the horse has bolted
To act only after the damage has already been done.
Mất bò mới lo làm chuồng.
Có chuyện rồi mới lo phòng bị thì đã muộn.
Shut the stable door after the horse has bolted
Examples
Adding a password now is just shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Bây giờ mới đặt mật khẩu thì đúng là mất bò mới lo làm chuồng.
Don't shut the stable door after the horse has bolted — back up your files today.
Đừng để mất bò mới lo làm chuồng — hãy sao lưu các tệp của bạn ngay hôm nay.
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Related idioms
- As strong as a horseeasily confused
- Put the cart before the horseeasily confused
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bushsame topic
- One swallow does not make a summersame topic
- Take the bull by the hornssame topic
- The early bird catches the wormsame topic