"To shut the stable door after the horse has bolted", an idiom as old as horsemanship. Now it has a one shorthand, Hashtag friendly word to define the entire concept due to David Cameron and Razor the police horse in the scandal referred to as Horsegate. The origins on Gate as a suffix are in the Watergate trials of Richard Nixon
by MikeSynonymous June 20, 2012

by aidslover May 20, 2022
