you snooze you lose

English

Phrase

you snooze you lose

1. (slang) If one is not alert and attentive, one will not be successful.

Related terms

• snoozer, loser

Translations

If you are not alert and attentive, you will not be successful

• Finnish: nopeat syövät hitaat
• French: qui part à la chasse perd sa place (fr), qui va à la chasse perd sa place (fr), si tu dors, t’es mort
• German: wer rastet, der rostet
• Portuguese: bobeou, dançou (literally: you were a fool, you danced)
• Spanish: camarón que se duerme se lo lleva la corriente (literally “the shrimp that falls asleep is taken away by the current”)

See also

• the early bird gets the worm