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time flies

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Time flies is what we say when hours or years seem to pass in a blink. How time flies, time flies when you're enjoying yourself.

It is a translation of the Latin tempus fugit, which is carved on sundials all over Europe. The feeling is real and understood: time seems to speed up as we age because fewer experiences are new, and it is new experience that lays down memory.

Definitions of time flies

  1. 1phrasetime fliesSaid when time seems to pass very quickly.B2

    “Your son is starting university already? Time flies!”

time flies is a saying.

Where it comes from

A translation of Latin tempus fugit, time flees, which is carved on sundials across Europe.

  1. Latin

    tempus fugit

  2. English, today

    time flies

Latin tempus fugit.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Time & Calendar, Idioms

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