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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Lock the Stable Door Lock the stable door when the steed is stolen. To take "precautions" when the mischief is done. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inutility | Seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen; (too late); hold a farthing candle to the sun; cast pearls before swine; (waste); carry coals to Newcastle; (redundancy); wash a blackamoor white; (impossible). |
Unskillfulness | Begin at the wrong end; do things by halves; (not complete); make two bites of a cherry; play at cross purposes; strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; (caprice); put the cart before the horse; lock the stable door when the horse is stolen; (too late). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LOCK THE STABLE DOOR |
| Specialty definitions using "LOCK THE STABLE DOOR": After Meat, Mustard ♦ Horse.. (references) |
Expression using "LOCK THE STABLE DOOR": lock the stable door when the horse is stolen. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-h-k-l-l-o-o-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-5 letters: rhabdocoeles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 4F 43 4B 54 48 45 53 54 41 42 4C 45 44 4F 4F 52 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01001111 01000011 01001011 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01010011 01010100 01000001 01000010 01001100 01000101 00100000 01000100 01001111 01001111 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L O C K   T H E   S T A B L E   D O O R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 004F 0043 004B 0054 0048 0045 0053 0054 0041 0042 004C 0045 0044 004F 004F 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4649374525442392535435364639238494952 |
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