Idiom
a day late and a dollar short
Meaning
Too late and too feeble to achieve the desired effect.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Your apology is a day late and a dollar short.”
“He tried to fix the broken machine, but his efforts were a day late and a dollar short.”
“The government finally passed the new safety regulations, but for the families affected by the disaster, the action was a day late and a dollar short.”
Examples
simple
“Your apology is a day late and a dollar short.”
contextual
“He tried to fix the broken machine, but his efforts were a day late and a dollar short.”
complex
“The government finally passed the new safety regulations, but for the families affected by the disaster, the action was a day late and a dollar short.”
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