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放马后炮fàng mǎ hòu pàocriticize or make comments on sth after it is already over; do sth which no longer needs to be done; fire belated shots; start firing after the enemy has gone
❍ 切记不要使问题成了堆，才来一个总结，～。(《毛泽东选集》Ⅴ—204) Make sure that you don’t wait until problems pile up before making a reckoning,that would be firing belated shots. 放马后炮fang ma hou paofire belated shots 放马后炮fail to give timely advice;fire belated shots;be a Monday morning quarterback 放马后炮fànɡ mǎ hòu pào比喻事后说得好听。fire belated shots, talk about afterthoughts as if they were forethoughts, do sth. which no longer needs to be done, flog a dead horse |