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:
- dark horse
- bet on the wrong horse
- eat like a horse
- straight from the horse's mouth
- wild horses could not drag (someone away)
- put the cart before the horse
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- work like a horse
- horse of a different color
- you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink)
- horse around
- horse sense
- horse trade
- on horseback
- get off one's high horse