为时已晚 (為時已晚)
wéi shí yǐ wǎn
Pinyin
Definition
为时已晚 (為時已晚)
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- already too late
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一夔已足
- 1 one talented person is enough for the job (idiom)
君子报仇,十年不晚
- 1 lit. for a nobleman to take revenge, ten years is not too long (idiom)
- 2 fig. revenge is a dish best served cold
大器晚成
- 1 lit. it takes a long time to make a big pot (idiom); fig. a great talent matures slowly
- 2 in the fullness of time a major figure will develop into a pillar of the state
- 3 Rome wasn't built in a day
已作出保
- 1 to do sth under oath (idiom)
往事已矣
- 1 the past is dead (idiom)