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Phrase of the Day (close the stable door after the horse has bolted)-29NOV21

Phrase of the Day (close the stable door after the horse has bolted)-29NOV21

Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is close the stable door after the horse has bolted and its meaning is “try to do something too late after a bad or unpleasant thing has already happened”.

Example Sentence: The Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) member Giridhar R. Babu, who also heads Lifecourse Epidemiology at Indian Institute of Public Health in Bengaluru, has said that restricting entry from a few countries is not going to help either prevent or control the spread of the new variant. “It is akin to closing a stable door after a horse has bolted. Instead, identify clusters of recent origin and do genomic sequencing… 

This phrase is present in The Hindu article ‘Imposing travel restrictions will not help’ and click here to read it.

Courtesy: The Hindu

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