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time flies
Idioms and Phrases
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.â€Example Sentences
But that time flies by, akin to a cozy night in with an episode binge.
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.
"It's crazy how time flies. I know it's 20 years ago but I remember it all like it was yesterday."
It is the first time the band have topped the countdown since 2010, when Time Flies was first released.
Greatest hits collection Time Flies is at number three, 1995's What's The Story Morning Glory is at four, and debut Definitely Maybe - released on 29 August 1994 - is in fifth place.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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