What is "a day late and a dollar short"

alt. (context US idiomatic English) Action that was taken too late and is too feeble to be of any use. n. (context US idiomatic English) Action that was taken too late and is too feeble to be of any use.

A Day Late And A Dollar Short is a compilation album of early songs by pop punk band The Queers. The album was reissued as the last of a series by Asian Man Records on August 21, 2007.

A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2002) is Terry McMillan's fifth novel. It’s about a family in Las Vegas in 1994. Family charts in the end pages assist readers in keeping track of who is who in the large and dysfunctional Price family.