Scarborough Warning Definition

noun
A warning given too late to be useful.
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Origin of Scarborough Warning

  • 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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