run late

present singular third person runs late · participle present running late · past ran late

1. idiomaticTo be late; to fail to be on time.

   When the clocks are put forward at the introduction of summer time, the long-distance night trains automatically become one hour late, and continue to run late for the remainder of their journeys. […] Similarly, when the clocks are put back in the autumn, the night trains become one hour early.

   1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Railways and Summer Time”, in Railway Magazine, page 429