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.

Examples of too little, too late in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Any successful adjustments Kidd finds for Game 4 will be too little, too late. —Matias Grez, CNN, 14 June 2024

It feels tacked on: too little, too late, too ludicrous — the past rewritten as a form of wishful thinking. —Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 June 2024

Unfortunately, that was too little, too late — much like his resignation as minority leader. —Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2024

Instead of negotiating commitments that are too little, too late, an economy-wide transformation is needed—one that puts ambitious climate goals at the center and not the periphery of how economies are designed. —Mariana Mazzucato, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2024

Putin’s preening is clearly fed by the belief that the new aid is too little, too late, and that a Trump victory in November will mean an end to further U.S. support for Kyiv. —Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 15 May 2024

The homer was Flores’ first of the season and the 150th of his career but proved to be too little, too late. —Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 4 May 2024

But those efforts now seem likely to be too little, too late. —Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024

The late flurry turned out to be too little, too late for Indiana, but head coach Rick Carlisle was pleased with his squad’s effort. —Sam Joseph, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024