“You snooze you lose”
Snoozing means sleeping, or napping. The idea of this phrase is that if you are snoozing, ie. not paying attention, then you lose.
Imagine that there is one slice of pizza left in the box. Then you take the last piece of pizza and your friend beside you says, “hey, I was planning on eating that”. You can make fun of him by saying, “you snooze, you lose”. It basically means, “you were too slow and not paying attention, so too bad, you lose, and I get to eat the pizza.”
Andrew
Phrases and idioms
October 17th, 2007 at 11:08 am
cool, these are fun to learn, hope a lot of more will come.
October 24th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
In spanish this are called “dichos” (sayings ) about “You snooze you lose” in spanish there are few “dichos” teaching that lesson. It’s great knowing useful phrases and idioms.
Thank you guys. Keep up the good work.