time flies
Time passes quickly, as in It's midnight already? Time flies when you're having fun, or I guess it's ten years since I last saw you—how time flies. This idiom was first recorded about 1800 but Shakespeare used a similar phrase, “the swiftest hours, as they flew,” as did Alexander Pope, “swift fly the years.”
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How to use time flies in a sentence
ON HOW time flies Richard Curtis (Writer/Director): It keeps taking me by surprise!
Love Actually’s 10th Anniversary: The Cast and Crew Reminisce About the Christmas Classic | Marlow Stern | November 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe fashion plate tweeted last night “Thank you everyone…I am so touched…I forgot which day my birthday was…time flies!”
The Dallas Mavericks' Cheerleaders Skimpy New Uniforms; Karl Lagerfeld's Interesting Word Choice | The Fashion Beast Team | November 9, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut time flies, and the hour is come to get ready the midday dinner.
Child Life In Town And Country | Anatole FranceSpeak, but be brief; I repeat, time flies, an hour ago we ought to have been on our journey.
The Guide of the Desert | Gustave AimardWe passed the Pantheon and several places of great interest, but time flies and we must away from Paris.
From the Thames to the Tiber | J. Wardle
time flies fast, boy, and you will be a man sooner than you expect—too soon perhaps for the golden days of youth.
Marcus: the Young Centurion | George Manville FennCome, man—time flies; let us wet his wings, and keep him fluttering a while over our heads.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 | Alexander Leighton
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