放马后炮 — Chinese idiom
放马后炮
fàng mǎ hòu pào
Traditional: 放馬後炮
Meaning
- to fire after the horse has bolted ; to act too late to be effective
Character by character
- 放fàngto release, to liberate, to free
- 马mǎhorse; surname
- 后hòuafter; behind, rear; descendants
- 炮pàocannon, artillery
Idioms sharing a character
- 大放厥词 dà fàng jué cí
- 大放悲声 dà fàng bēi shēng
- 大鸣大放 dà míng dà fàng
- 心花怒放 xīn huā nù fàng
- 摩顶放踵 mó dǐng fàng zhǒng
- 放情丘壑 fàng qíng qiū hè
- 放浪不羁 fàng làng bù jī
- 放浪形骸 fàng làng xíng hái
- 放荡不羁 fàng dàng bù jī
- 放诞不拘 fàng dàn bù jū
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