亡羊补牢
Traditional form:
亡羊補牢
Pinyin (reading):
wángyángbǔláo
Definitions:
- lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom)
- fig. to act belatedly
- better late than never
- to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
Characters:
- 亡 - death, destruction; to lose; to perish
- 羊 - sheep, goat
- 补 - to fix, to mend, to patch, to restore
- 牢 - pen, prison, stable; fast, firm, secure
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