Ready
Ready adjective - Being in a state of fitness for some experience or action.
Too late
Both terms in one sentence
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Several times they turn around suspiciously, but are an instant too late to spot the eyes until the snappy animated plants they belong to are ready to attack.
Source: By the Lights of Their Eyes -
They barely get it armed and ready in time to use it...and even then they're still too late.
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The theory was that if the Russians ever launched an attack, there would be no time to get the crews to the planes and transport the bombs from the storage facilities before too late arrived, so let's remove that from the equation by having the plane, the crew, and the bombs always ready to go.
Source: Black Comedy
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