too little, too late
idiom
: not enough and not soon enough to make a difference
Her efforts to improve her grade were too little, too late.
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Elliott has said that after a long run of bad business, the moves are too little, too late.
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Melvin Backman, Quartz, 4 Oct. 2024
Elliott, which has been engaging in a proxy campaign back-and-forth with Southwest management, has been banging the drum that these changes are too little, too late and that investors should give it a chance to shape the company’s future instead.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 24 Sep. 2024
The question on Wall Street is if that ends up being too little, too late.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
But the better numbers were too little, too late for GEC, which had a 14 percent decline in revenue to $1.36 billion in 2023, alongside $67 million in an adjusted EBITDA losses.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 Aug. 2024
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Melvin Backman, Quartz, 4 Oct. 2024
Elliott, which has been engaging in a proxy campaign back-and-forth with Southwest management, has been banging the drum that these changes are too little, too late and that investors should give it a chance to shape the company’s future instead.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 24 Sep. 2024
The question on Wall Street is if that ends up being too little, too late.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
But the better numbers were too little, too late for GEC, which had a 14 percent decline in revenue to $1.36 billion in 2023, alongside $67 million in an adjusted EBITDA losses.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 Aug. 2024
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