LAS LENGUAS INGLESA Y ESPAÑOLA de Delfín Carbonell

  Plenty of stowaway idioms come into Spanish in the ship of translations and translators. I have read this immigrant phrase in Spanish Después del caballo hurtado, cerrar la caballeriza  mirroring  the original Too late to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted . In Spanish we would say, with the same meaning, muerto el burro, la cebada al rabo .  I am trying to give serious equivalents to phraseological units in my Phraseological Dictionary, English-Spanish , which is almost completed.