time flies

Idioms and Phrases

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.”

Example Sentences

ON HOW TIME FLIES Richard Curtis (Writer/Director): It keeps taking me by surprise!

From The Daily Beast

The fashion plate tweeted last night “Thank you everyone…I am so touched…I forgot which day my birthday was…time flies!”

From The Daily Beast

But time flies, and the hour is come to get ready the midday dinner.

From Project Gutenberg

Speak, but be brief; I repeat, time flies, an hour ago we ought to have been on our journey.

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We passed the Pantheon and several places of great interest, but time flies and we must away from Paris.

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Time flies fast, boy, and you will be a man sooner than you expect—too soon perhaps for the golden days of youth.

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Come, man—Time flies; let us wet his wings, and keep him fluttering a while over our heads.

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