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