TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE Definition & Meaning

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too little, too late

Inadequate as a remedy and not in time to be effective, as in The effort to divert the stream into a corn field was too little too late—the houses were already flooded. This term originated in the military, where it was applied to reinforcements that were insufficient and arrived too late to be of help. [First half of 1900s]

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But Timea Szabo from the campaign group Shared Owners network says it is "too little, too late".

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By the time the film gets around to revealing its more human side — epiphanies gained, lessons learned — it’s too little, too late.

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A flurry of changes brought about some fight and finesse, but as Scotland shot-stopper and player of the match Lee Gibson said post-match it was, again, "too little, too late".

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But for Mr Ahmed, the statement was too little too late.

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But for some, it was too little, too late.

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