too little, too late

idiom

: not enough and not soon enough to make a difference

Her efforts to improve her grade were too little, too late.

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Recent Examples on the Web

However, its 18-point halftime deficit proved to be too large of a gap to close and its second half improvements were too little, too late. —Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023

For some, Thursday's apology was too little, too late. —Aina J. Khan, NBC News, 17 Feb. 2023

This may be too little, too late. —Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023

However, by this point in the BeltLine’s existence, displacement prevention efforts may be too little, too late. —Dan Immergluck, The Conversation, 25 Jan. 2023

Still, To Leslie made barely a peep when it was released in October and had been ignored by all the major precursors, leading most pundits to believe the Twitter blitz would be too little, too late. —Vulture, 24 Jan. 2023

But this may be too little, too late. —David A. Andelman, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023

Upon learning that he’s washed her soccer jersey and bought her blueberries, the remarkably mature Alice explains to Jimmy that these gestures amount to too little, too late. —Time, 23 Jan. 2023

But the run was too little, too late; the Cardinals lost 67-66. —Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 10 Dec. 2022

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