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]

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