时不我待 — Chinese idiom
时不我待
shí bù wǒ dài
Traditional: 時不我待
Meaning
- time and tide wait for no man
Character by character
- 时shítime, season; period, era, age
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 我wǒI, me, my; our, us
- 待dàito entertain, to receive, to treat; to delay, to w
Idioms sharing a character
- 一时半刻 yī shí bàn kè
- 不识时务 bù shí shí wù
- 不识时变 bù shí shí biàn
- 俗随时变 sú suí shí biàn
- 切中时弊 qiè zhòng shí bì
- 切中时病 qiè zhòng shí bìng
- 及时行乐 jí shí xíng lè
- 名噪一时 míng zào yī shí
- 因时制宜 yīn shí zhì yí
- 应天顺时 yìng tiān shùn shí
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