late in the day

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English

Adjective

late in the day (comparative more late in the day, superlative most late in the day)

  1. Too late, or almost too late; belated.
    • 1865, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 841:
      It appeared to him to be rather late in the day to bring in a Bill of this sort. We had gone on hitherto without the machinery which it proposed []

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