too little, too late
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.06 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
phrase
Used as a predicate or a pro-sentence to indicate insufficiency.
Example Sentences
- "That's just half what was due last week. Too little, too late."
- "Committing half his reserves nearly three hours after the attack was too little, too late."
- "Finally, the island’s delicate balance could take no more as the sheer weight of the buildings and people on the northern part of the island caused it to tip on one end. Those who weren’t immediately drowned raced uphill for the center of Atlantis, in the hope of restoring the balance. But it was too little, too late, and the whole thing slid quietly into the ocean."
- "Jones forced a header over the line after Danny Welbeck was denied from close range and fellow substitute Federico Macheda hit the woodwork, but it was too little, too late."
- "The Spanish government’s efforts to tackle the economic turmoil unleashed by the Covid pandemic were “too little, too late and too few”, according to a report that finds thousands of people are still reliant on emergency food aid and facing even greater hardship as prices soar."