Lock the Stable Door.
Lock the stable door when the steed is stolen. To take “precautions” when the mischief is done.
Lock the stable door when the steed is stolen. To take “precautions” when the mischief is done.
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.