Les carottes sont cuites
It's all over
On est arrivés trop tard… les carottes sont cuites.
You arrive at the station as the doors close and the train pulls away.
Literally "the carrots are cooked."
In practice it means it's over, it's too late, there's no way back-defeat or an outcome is basically inevitable. You can use it dramatically for serious stuff (a lost case) or humorously for small things (your phone is dead, you missed the train). It often carries a resigned tone: we tried, but it's done. Fun trivia: it's sometimes associated with wartime coded phrases, though in everyday use it's just a common idiom.
"Les carottes sont cuites" does not mean it's ready to be served, it's been left on the stove too long, we're not there yet. It specifically means "It's all over".
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