late train
n.— «Within a month after Clements lost, Mark White, the victor, held a series of “get on board the late train” fund-raisers that produced $3 million from many of the original Clements backers.» —“Economic Ills Strain Alliance Of Oilmen, GOP” by Thomas B. Edsall Washington Post Apr. 25, 1983. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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