- English translation
When the day of winning comes, nobody feels tired.
- Literal wording
The day of victory, there is no tiredness in it.
- Meaning and lesson
The proverb says that a moment of triumph erases the sense of hardship, not the hardship itself. Whatever labor, strain, or exhaustion went into reaching it, the delight of winning outweighs it so fully that the person hardly registers the cost at all.
In practice it frames effort as something forgotten once the goal is secured. It can celebrate a success by dismissing its toll, or encourage perseverance by promising that the satisfaction of victory will make present weariness seem trivial in hindsight.
- When it is used
An everyday colloquial remark, suited to someone who has just achieved a hard-won goal and brushes off how exhausting it was, or to cheering on people facing heavy work by reminding them that a successful outcome will make the strain feel like nothing.
- Register
- colloquial
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