TOO LATE

Definition: TOO LATE

TOO LATE

1. After the proper or available time; when the time or opportunity is past.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Inutility

Seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen; (too late); hold a farthing candle to the sun; cast pearls before swine; (waste); carry coals to Newcastle; (redundancy); wash a blackamoor white; (impossible).

Lateness

Adverb: late; lateward, backward; late in the day; at sunset, at the eleventh hour, at length, at last; ultimately; after time, behind time, after the deadline; too late; too late for.

Untimeliness

Unpunctual; (late); too late for; premature; (early); too soon for; wise after the event, monday morning quarterbacking, twenty-twenty hindsight.

Crosswords: TOO LATE

But you know what? It's never too late to get it back. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

You're too late again , Mr. Bond! (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

Too late, I'm already on the 40's, gotta go around the horn, it's faster. (Toy Story 2; writing credit: John Lasseter; Peter Docter)

It's never too late to do the right thing. (What Women Want; writing credit: Josh Goldsmith; Cathy Yuspa)

The prince tried to apologize but it was too late, for she had seen that there was no kindness in his heart. (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury)

But I'm gaining pounds at the precipice of Too Late (Too Little Too Late; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

And it's much too late for goodbyes (Too Late For Goodbyes; performing artist: Julian Lennon)

Yeah, but it's never too late (Fly Away From Here; performing artist: Aerosmith)

It's not too late to change your mind (More Than That; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

It's too late to fight (You May Be Right; performing artist: Billy Joel)

What you do when you don't have to do it will determine what you are when it's too late to do anything about it! (references; author: unknown)

Tomorrow Is Too Late (1974)

Too Late the Hero (1970)

Never Too Late (1965)

Too Late Blues (1961)

It's Never Too Late (1956)

Too Much, Too Little, Too Late (performing artist: Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams)

Too Late, Too Soon (performing artist: Jon Secada)

Too Late For Goodbyes (performing artist: Julian Lennon)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: How to Create Your Second Life at Any Age (reference)

• Preventing Derailment: What to Do Before It's Too Late (Technical Report Series ; No. 138G) (reference)

• Before It's Too Late : Don't Leave Your Loved Ones Unprepared (reference)

• The smoldering wick : never too late for new life (reference)

• Is It Too Late to Run Away and Join the Circus? An Updated Guide to Your Second Life (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Barenaked Ladies - Too Little Too Late (DVD Single) (reference)

• Too Late the Hero (reference)

• Too Late for Tears (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• It's Never Too Late to Annoy Your Parents (reference)

• Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch (reference)

• Ships Arriving Too Late to Save Drowing (Ltd Lp) [IMPORT] (reference)

• Its Not Too Late (reference)

• It's Too Late / Today (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Let's do one more line." : Ask about drug abuse...before it's too late. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

She Suffered From Rubella For Three Days Her Baby May Suffer For Life : Rubella. Vaccinate Before It's Too Late. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Photographed circa 1898. This ship began conversion to a water carrier during the Spanish-American War, but was commissioned too late to see service in that confict. About a decade later, she became the U.S. Navy's first oiler. Credit: NAVY.

Too late the rime popped in his head : be mine! he sang -- but Spring had fled. Credit: Library of Congress.

Too late! / Berryman. Credit: Library of Congress.

Giovanni, too late for farewells : please-a ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Detail of burned out wheat near Hydro, Oklahoma. The extensive rains came too late to save some of the wheat in this section. Credit: Library of Congress.

Praise of learning : learn the elementary things! For those whose time has come it is never too late! ... Credit: Library of Congress.

War. It's a dying business. Too late the hero. Credit: Library of Congress.

Before it's too late, elect Senator Goodman mayor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But the state of mankind is not so miserable that they are not capable of using this remedy, till it be too late to look for any. (Second Treatise of Government)

Do not let us take the course of allowing events to drift along until it is too late. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

As for his going, Emma did not wish him to think it possible, the hours would be too late, and the party too numerous.

I caught at his arm, but too late to stop him.

These perceptions have come too late.

But he was too late.

It was too late to go upstairs to the French class.

Which since you come too late of our intent, Yet witness what you hear we did intend.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

This may due to the fact that patients were enrolled too late in their disease course or that the symptoms may relate more to the immunological response to the virus rather than direct viral invasion. (references)

Business

American telecommunication equipment suppliers are not entirely too late to enter the Vietnam market, but it will not be easy for them. European and Japanese firms dominate the equipment market simply because they have been here the longest and have the most established relationships with VNPT and the various subsidiaries of the company. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

Once a project has gone to tender, it is usually too late to be competitive if the supplier company has not already in some way become involved. (references)

Human Rights

Eritrea

In some cases, police intervened too late to prevent the abuse or were unable to halt the abuse. (references)

China

In practice, criminal defendants only are assigned an attorney once a case has been brought to court; some observers have noted that at this point, it is too late for an attorney to assist a client in a meaningful way, since the verdict often has been decided already. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

Lawyers complain that they sometimes are granted access to court documents too late to prepare an effective defense. (references)

ROMANIA

Among them: _ the continued pervasive state presence, including in acquisition prices, state management of a large proportion of arable land, state ownership of input supply, storage, marketing, and agro-processing enterprises; _ incomplete land reform which has left many fragmented holdings, for which property rights are still not well-defined; _ limited financial services, few private input suppliers, and little extension services; _ agricultural coupons for tiled lands that arrive too late to be helpful for agricultural production. (references)

Political Rights

Zambia

Provisions for a continuous registration system were enacted too late to be of use in the December 27 elections. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "TOO LATE": too late for. Additional references.

Chinese 

來不及 (it's too late, there's not enough time), 不及 (find it too late, inferior to, not as good as). (various references)

German

es ist vielleicht zu spät (it may be too late). (various references)

Hungarian

mint soha (better late than never, it is never too late to mend), jobb későn (better late than never, it is never too late to mend). (various references)

Indonesian

terlanjur (overshoot, rash, too far), suntuk (be overtaken by events of time), kasip (late). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

既に (already). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すでに (already), す�"でに (already), おくればせ (belated, eleventh-hour, late in arriving). (various references)

Pig Latin

ootay atelay

Portuguese

tarde demais. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prekasno. (various references)

sera, seraian, seram, seras, sereser, seri, seris, sero. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: tootle.

-2 letters: latte, lotte, lotto, total.

-3 letters: aloe, alto, late, loot, lota, olea, oleo, otto, tael, tale, tate, teal, teat, tela, toea, tola, tole, tool, toot, tote.

-4 letters: ale, alt, ate, att, eat, eta, lat, lea, let, loo, lot, oat, ole, oot, tae, tao, tat, tea, tel, tet, toe, too, tot.

-5 letters: ae, al, at.

+2 letters: tolerator.

+3 letters: apostolate, etiolation, flatfooted, osteoblast, osteoclast, teratology, toleration, tolerators.

+4 letters: apostolates, etiolations, footfaulted, footlambert, molestation, obliterator, osteoblasts, osteoclasts, osteoplasty, outpopulate, protectoral, protoplanet, tautologies, teratologic, tolerations.

+5 letters: contemplator, emotionalist, emotionality, enterostomal, exploitation, extrapolator, footlamberts, hematologist, interpolator, levorotatory, metropolitan, molestations, nematologist, obliteration, obliterators, olfactometer, osteoblastic, osteoclastic, osteoplastic, outpopulated, outpopulates, oxaloacetate, postneonatal, protonematal, protoplanets, snaggletooth, sternocostal, stromatolite, teratologies, teratologist, trifoliolate, wollastonite, yellowthroat.