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时不我待
shí​bù​wǒ​dài

time waits for no one

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
时不我待 時不我待 shí​bù​wǒ​dài
time waits for no one
time and tide wait for no man; used as an idiom to urge others to seize the moment and make the most of their time

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.270 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.437 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)