fire belated shots
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f à n à m à h à up à o, which means to refer to the past. It's from the story of the old man.
Analysis of Idioms
After the event, Zhuge Liang
Idiom usage
Don't make the problem pile up, just come to a conclusion and make a quick decision. The current class struggle in a debate on agricultural cooperation by Mao Zedong
The origin of Idioms
·The 29th chapter of Xia Jingqu's wild old man's Expositions: "people are dead. It's too late to set fire here."
fire belated shots
steadfastly stand on one's ground - kuī rán bù dòng
sing merrily and dance gracefully - qīng gē màn wǔ
suffer from both the outside and the inside - wài gǎn nèi shāng