stable door

British  

noun

1. US and Canadian equivalent: Dutch door.  a door with an upper and lower leaf that may be opened separately

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Example Sentences

"What they are trying to do is shut the stable door long after the horse, the horse's grandmother and the horses' relatives have crossed the mountain range to emerge free on the other side," he said.

From BBC

She managed to open her back stable door, which had a beaded curtain, and photograph the bird which "was about 10 steps away".

From BBC

When Ms Truss again blamed the global economic situation on Putin's war, the presenter James Hanson said: "This isn't just about Putin. Your chancellor on Friday opened up the stable door and spooked the horses so much you could almost see the economy being dragged behind them... The Bank of England intervention yesterday was the fault of Vladimir Putin, was it?"

From BBC

The regulations’ impact, as before, will be to shut the stable door long after the horse is roaming free in the paddock, eating all of the best grass.

From New York Times

But he said of the plans to tighten the rules, “There is an element of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.”

From New York Times