lock the barn door after the horse is gone
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Tina failed the examination and said she would study hard after that. She wanted to lock the barn door after the horse was gone.
Другие идиомы:
- bet on the wrong horse
- put the cart before the horse
- hold one's horses
- horse around
- dark horse
- horse sense
- wild horses could not drag (someone away)
- get on one's high horse
- you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink)
- horse of a different color
- work like a horse
- back the wrong horse
- horse trade
- straight from the horse's mouth
- on horseback