late in the day

adjective

Too late, or almost too late; belated.

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Meanings

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

comparative more late in the day · superlative most late in the day

  1. Too late, or almost too late; belated.

    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 […]

    1865, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 841
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