What does you snooze you lose mean?

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you snooze you lose

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English

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If one is not alert and attentive, one will not be successful.

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the early bird gets the worm

snoozer loser the early bird gets the worm

What does you snooze you lose mean?: If one is not alert and attentive, one will not be successful.

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