放馬後炮 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 放马后炮 fàngmǎhòupào ㄈㄤˋ ㄇㄚˇ ㄏㄡˋ ㄆㄠˋ to fire after the horse has bolted (idiom) to act too late to be effective Character by character 放(fàng)put 馬(mǎ)surname Ma 後(hòu)back 炮(pào)cannon A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0