English Explanatory Dictionary

Scarborough warning

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A warning given too late to be useful.

Word forms

Scarborough warning Scarborough warnings

Etymology

Fuller links the phrase to the events of 1557, when Thomas Stafford seized upon Scarborough Castle before the townsmen had the least notice of his approach.

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