English Explanatory Dictionary

ambulance at the bottom of a cliff

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A futile or post factum answer to a problem.

Word forms

ambulance at the bottom of a cliff

Etymology

A variation on the Joseph Malins' 1895 poem "The ambulance down in the valley," where the need for an ambulance would be removed by a fence on the cliff.

Related words

too little, too late
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