放马后炮 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 放馬後炮 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 马(mǎ)surname Ma 后(hòu)surname Hou 炮(pào)cannon A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0