Scarborough warning

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A warning given too late to be useful.

词形变化

Scarborough warnings plural

词源

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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