late in the day in English

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more late in the day",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most late in the day",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "late in the day (comparative more late in the day, superlative most late in the day)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1865, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 841",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Too late, or almost too late."
      ],
      "id": "en-late_in_the_day-en-adj-z1t6e8Um",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "close the stable door after the horse has bolted"
        },
        {
          "word": "a day after the fair"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "late in the day"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more late in the day",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most late in the day",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "late in the day (comparative more late in the day, superlative most late in the day)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "close the stable door after the horse has bolted"
    },
    {
      "word": "a day after the fair"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1865, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 841",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Too late, or almost too late."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "late in the day"
}

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"late in the day" meaning in English

Adjective