burn the candle at both ends

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toworkhardnight and day; to sleep late and wake up early; tooverworkoroverexertoneself.1911,Edna Ferber, chapter 8, inDawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed‎[1]:Von Gerhard's face was unsmiling. “So,” he said, slowly. “Youburn the candle at both ends. All day you write, is it not so? And at night you come home to write still more? Ach, Kindchen!—Na, we shall change all that.[…]2012,John Mulaney, 0:01:05 from the start, inJohn Mulaney: New in Town:I don’t look older, I just look worse, I think. Honestly, when I’m walking down the street, no one’s ever like, “Hey, look at that man!” I think they’re just like “Whoa! That tall child looks terrible! Get some rest, tall child! You can't keepburning the candle at both ends!"; (idiomatic,dated)Towasteorexpendresourcestwice over; to be doublyprofligate.1866May, “Large and Small Companies”, inThe Bankers’ Magazine[…], volume26,pages530–1:The dividends[…]were divided from capital and not from profit—for, in truth, the concern never earned a penny in the sense in which the term profit is commonly employed.[…]The pipe-making concernburned the candle at both ends, and burned it steadily;[…]1892February 17, H. M. Grant, “What Do We Learn?”, inProceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Fire Underwriters’ Association of the Pacific, published1892,page154:And another thing not to be forgotten is that the expense rate, the cost of production, has kept pace with the reduction in premiums, thusburning the candle at both ends;[…]1905March,William Hamilton Osborne, “The Transfer of Thorneycroft”, inThe Smart Set, volume15, number 3,page95:Speaking financially, Mrs. Ormsby hadburned the candle at both ends. Her establishment was costly on the one hand; her pleasures costly on the other.1963, Karl Bradshaw, “Statement of Karl Bradshaw, Duckwater, Nev.”, inReview of the Taylor Grazing Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands[…]United States Senate, Eighty-Eighth Congress, First Session[…],page318:Now the Department of the Interior is trying toburn the candle at both endsby narrowing the margin of profit and at the same time cutting down the amount of production.1989,Dragon Wars(video game manual),Interplay Productions,page 1:Oceana is a world younger than our own, wedded to a star with but a fraction of the life expectancy of Sol. It is a worldburning the candle at both ends, enjoying twice the light in half the time, and spinning all the faster toward annihilation and the Void.

Examples:

EN: Young man, as you grow older, you'll find you can't burn the candle at both ends.
ES: Joven, cuando crezca verá que no puede encender una vela por los dos extremos.
EN: Oh! He ought to know you can't burn the candle at both ends.
ES: Ya debería saber que no se puede quemar una vela por ambos extremos.
EN: They burn the candle at both ends, it's life in the fast lane.
ES: Queman la vela por ambos extremos, es una vida por el canal rápido.
EN: - and you burn the candle at both ends-
ES: - y vives desenfrenadamente...
EN: You can burn the candle at both ends.
ES: Puedes soplar las velas por ambos lados.
EN: Don't burn the candle at both ends.
ES: No trabaje todo el día.
EN: Well, I liked to burn the candle at both ends.
ES: Me gustaba quemar la vela por ambos lados.
EN: She likes to burn the candle at both ends.
ES: Le gusta trabajar sin descanso.
EN: Fortunately Marty lived... but it's when she learned how to burn the candle at both ends.
ES: Afortunadamente, Marty vivié, y ahi fue cuando ella aprendié a trabajar de dia y de noche.
EN: Well, she certainly seems to burn the candle at both ends.
ES: Bueno, ciertamente parece quemar la vela en ambos extremos.
ID: Jelas dia tampak bekerja siang malam.
EN: "I didn't just burn the candle at both ends, I was also finding new ends to light."
HI: उनका कहना है कि 'मैं सिर्फ सूर्यनमस्कार ही नहीं करती बल्कि नई-नई चीजें ट्राई भी करती रहती हूं।
EN: I mean, I'm just trying to make things happen, and kind of burn the candle at both ends.
ID: Maksud saya, saya hanya mencoba berusaha dan "burn the candle at both ends". (bekerja dari pagi hari sampai malam hari, dengan sedikit istirahat)
EN: Now I think it was another way of saying, "To make things happen, you gotta burn the candle at both ends."
ID: Kurasa maksudnya sama dengan berusaha ekstra keras agar berhasil.
EN: But, as the saying goes, you shouldn't burn the candle at both ends.
ID: Namun, seperti kata pepatah, jangan bekerja lama tanpa istirahat.
EN: If you continuously burn the candle at both ends, it is likely that you will hit a wall at some point.
TE: మీరు నిరంతరం రెండు చివరలను కొవ్వొత్తిని కాల్చివేస్తే, మీరు ఏదో ఒక సమయంలో ఒక గోడను కొట్టే అవకాశం ఉంది.

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