you snooze, you lose, someone who is inattentive misses the chance or gets left behind
Envie a inscrição hoje: camarão que dorme, a onda leva.
Submit the application today: you snooze, you lose.
The image warns that a sleeping shrimp is helpless before the current: someone inattentive or slow to act can lose an opportunity and be left behind. The wording became nationally familiar through samba.
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