time waits for no man
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Su ì B ù w ǒ y ǔ, which means that age is not waiting for others; it means that we should rise up in time and make a difference. It comes from the Analects of Confucius Yang Huo.
The origin of Idioms
In the Analects of Confucius, Yang Huo, written by Lu konqiu in the spring and Autumn Period: "the sun and the moon are gone, and the year is not my match."
Idiom usage
He should rise up in time. The stars at the temples are still like this. Yuan · Yelu Chucai
time waits for no man
sting sb. with sarcastic remarks - lěng yǔ bīng rén