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.”

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"It's difficult to find time to gather and see everyone. This is what we miss. We feel like the time flies very, very fast because we're busy," she says.

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

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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.

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

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

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