After-clap
. Beware of after-claps. An after-clap is a catastrophe or threat after an affair is supposed to be over. It is very common in thunderstorms to hear a “clap” after the rain subsides, and the clouds break.
“What plaguy mischief and mishaps
Do dog him still with after-claps.”
Butler: Hudibras, Pt. i. 3.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.