A: What took you so long? I've been waiting for you for ages!

B: Sorry! I missed the bus and had to walk here.

A Oh well, never mind. Better late than never!

This popular idiom is used to say that it is better to do something late than not do it at all. People often use it when someone arrives late for a meeting, but it can also be used, for example, when an email or a letter arrives late, when somoene finishes some work after the deadline has passed, or when a person finally gets around to doing something that they've been putting off for a long time.

There is another expression that has a similar structure, 'better safe than sorry'. We say this when we are being careful because something bad might happen later. For example, if it's cloudy and I take an umbrella because it might rain later, I can say 'better safe than sorry'.

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B C