time flies

1. 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

Time Flies and Morning Glory also went back into the top five at that time.

From BBC

Time flies when you’re having fun, and it was seven years ago that the CEO caused a minicrisis by tweeting that he had secured the funding to take his electric car company private.

From Slate

Time flies — and, any day now, so will Sunny and Gizmo.

From Los Angeles Times

But that time flies by, akin to a cozy night in with an episode binge.

From Los Angeles Times

And it’s so easy to be taken with these two warm, assured actors that the first hour of “We Live in Time” flies by, a procession of meet-cutes, feisty squabbles, passionate sex, sad faces, chocolate-covered biscuits being balanced on Alma’s pregnant belly in the bathtub and candles — so, so many candles.

From Los Angeles Times