亡羊補牢

ぼうようほろう

Meanings

1. Noun locking the barn door after the horse has bolted; doing something too late (literally: mending the pen after the sheep are lost)

Kanji

• 亡 pass away. Read as ボウ.
• 羊 sheep. Read as ヨウ.
• 補 supplement
• 牢 prison; jail; hardness. Read as ロウ.

Word lists

• Yojijukugo (四字熟語)

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