late in the day

English

Adjective

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

1. Too late, or almost too late.
   • 1865, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 841:

     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 […]

See also

• close the stable door after the horse has bolted
• a day after the fair