close the stable door after the horse has bolted

Verb

 * 1)  To attempt to prevent a problem that has already occurred; to design and implement a preventive mechanism too late (after the first failure instead of before).

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: als het kalf verdronken is, dempt men de put, achter de feiten aanlopen
 * Finnish: haukotella kissan suussa
 * French:
 * German: den Brunnen zudecken, wenn das Kind hineingefallen ist
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: chiudere il recinto dopo che i buoi sono scappati, chiudere la stalla quando i buoi sono scappati, chiudere il cancello quando i buoi sono scappati
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: по свадба тапани
 * Polish:
 * Russian: после пожара да за водой
 * Spanish: a buenas horas mangas verdes
 * Tagalog aanhin pa ang damo kung patay na ang kabayo
 * Thai: