What does the saying "Burning Your Candle at both Ends" mean...???

Answer 1

time for a stress tab...!!!

Answer 2

The expression certainly does date from pre-electricity times, when candles were an important consumable commodity in every household. And it often is applied to someone who works--or plays--from early in the morning long into the night. But the image refers to the candle itself, consumed too quickly because both ends are lit and burning. The implication is that this is something no prudent person would do; as E. Cobham Brewer pointed out in the 1898 edition of his Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, "Of course, no candle could burn at both ends, unless held horizontally."

Answer 3

It means that you are trying to keep two things instead of settling for one, and you are going to end up with nothing. "Burning both ends of a candle can leave one in the dark..."

Answer 4

It means you're using up all your resources at once. Typically it means you have exacerbated all of your energy at the expense of something else.

I know when I was working three jobs, going to school full time, and trying to have a social life, I was "burning the candle at both ends." (for example.)

It's an indication that "something needs to give." ;)

Answer 5

It meanas you bought a candle and are holding it horizontally in the middle and you lit both ends to get more light.

Answer 6

For me it means working early in the morning and late at night too over a period of time.

Answer 7

It means you are busy with too many activities

Answer 8

If you are holding it you are likely to get burned, neither side is safe to hold.

Answer 9

taking on more than you can do, and you get burned in the end....

Answer 10

It means the wax that you are dripping on me is very painful!

Answer 11

It means you're too busy....doing too much......too many appointments, kids to run around, shopping......etc....just like most women do all the time.........