time flies

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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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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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.

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"It's crazy how time flies. I know it's 20 years ago but I remember it all like it was yesterday."

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It is the first time the band have topped the countdown since 2010, when Time Flies was first released.

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