Idiom
time flies
Meaning
Time passes quickly.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I cannot believe it is already evening; time flies.”
“We have been talking for three hours, but it feels like ten minutes because time flies when you are having fun.”
“As the years pass, one often reflects on how quickly time flies, turning once-vibrant memories into distant, hazy echoes of the past.”
Examples
simple
“I cannot believe it is already evening; time flies.”
contextual
“We have been talking for three hours, but it feels like ten minutes because time flies when you are having fun.”
complex
“As the years pass, one often reflects on how quickly time flies, turning once-vibrant memories into distant, hazy echoes of the past.”
Origin
Calque of Latin tempus fugit.
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