What does the phrase "Winter Comes Fast on the Lazy" mean?

Answer 1

It means that those people who keep putting things off and not getting things done soon find that they are not prepared for things when they need to be.

Answer 2

It is from olden days when a person or families survival in winter was depandent of the work you did in the Spring and Summer. Firewood had to be cut and stored to ensure enough for winter use, meat had to be hunted and stored, veggies grown and canned, field plowed and grain crops planted to ensure a late Summer or early Fall harvest. Then the grains needed to feed livestock stored. Many other things needed to be done everyday to ensure winter survival.

This usually required every member of the family to have duties above the normal daily chores. This included even the young children. Any one person not doing the extra duties could mean severe hardship and evern death during the winter.

So, if not prepared, winter alway seemed to start a month or two earlier. As with the first answer, things always happen when you are not prepared.

You can equate this to modern day this way. By not having several months worth of living expenses saved up, you will alway lose your job when you can least afford it.

Answer 3

It probably stems from that story about the animals who choose to put food away for the winter throughout the summer and the animals that choose to play instead of work during that summer. Winter would be here quicker than you know it if u had nothing to eat. the one's that chose to play and not work are the lazy ones. I mean, I'm sure that the story comes from something else, but that's what I think

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Answer 4

Because the lazy are too lazy to pay attention to the changing of the season. It is the age-old story of the ant and the grasshopper. The grasshopper fiddled all day while the ant worked storing away provisions for the winter. The ant was warm and cozy and the grasshopper froze.

Answer 5

If you don't prepare for something it seems to come quicker then if you were prepared for it...in other words, don't procrastinate. It is just like when you are in school and at the beginning of a semester the teacher tells you that you have a project due at the end of the semester. If you work on it all through the semester then the due date doesn't seem like it comes up on you all that fast. But if you wait until the week before it is due, it seems like the due date comes at you really fast.