What are English equivalents for following Russian idiom: "soldier sleeps – the service continues"? In Russian it means that "you have a rest, but your work is still being done".
UPD from comments:
- For example, you have a rest on the sea, and you still come royalty for previously written a book.
- you relax, and the money will still come to your account
- Your text can be paraphrased – do / not do – you have the same result. That is, anything from you does not. That is correct. But I would say that you're doing something, and there comes a time when you have to depend on nothing.
- Example: you are the boss and taught their employees to do their job without your help. Ride the sea. Relax. Now nothing to depend from you. But you know that your staff will do everything as it should.
- For example, Joanne Rowling wrote "Harry Potter" books, and may the relax a long time – the money for the books will be coming for a long time,
ie hard work you at first, and then you can use the result of a very long
Best Answer
I was offered this: "While the fisher sleeps the net takes"
What do you think?