Dicho español · Spanish proverb
«A trabajar, que la vida es corta.»
Word for word
To work, that life is short.
What it really means
The closest English equivalent: Get to work, life is short.
Used humorously or encouragingly to push someone to stop procrastinating and get busy with their tasks.
Hear it in a sentence
Ya basta de descanso, a trabajar, que la vida es corta.
Enough resting, get to work, life is short.
Why learn dichos?
Proverbs like this one are everywhere in spoken Spanish — dropped mid-conversation, usually just the first half, with the rest left for you to complete. Recognizing them is one of the fastest ways to sound less like a textbook and follow real speech. Every Lingocito edition signs off with the dicho del día, so you meet one a day next to news written at your exact level.