too little, too late
not enough of something that should have been provided earlier:
A spokeswoman described the aid for the refugees as too little, too late.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- be at a premium idiom
- be thin on the ground idiom
- dearth
- deficiency
- deficient
- gold dust
- lacking
- late
- long on sth and short on sth idiom
- lousy
- meagre
- measly
- nearly
- rare
- scarce
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortfall
- sparse
- thin
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