0 to do something at the wrong moment with the result that it is unsuccessful or has an unwanted effect: --
Secondly—and this is a point pertaining particularly to our debate this afternoon—is it mistimed?
It is essential that we should not mistime post-devaluation measures.
Certainly they are mistimed, because they have been made at a time of low profitability within industry as a whole.
I apologise to my noble friend for mistiming by a minute my entry.
Finally, there are two other important reasons why we believe that the directive is mistimed.
My criticism is that they have probably mistimed the legislation and gone too far.
They cannot be very sure whether they should put more in now, because they have mistimed their reflation and misused the instruments available for reflation.
A conference was held, and in the case of one command it was mistimed by a few hours.
