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  2. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana - Wikipedia

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    The expression is based on the proverb: "Time flies", a translation of the Latin Tempus fugit, where "fly" is to be taken in the sense of flee. An early example of a pun with the expression "Time flies" may be found in a 1930 issue of Boys' Life: Flies Around Scoutmaster: Time flies. Smart Tenderfoot: You can't. They go too fast. [3]

  3. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    As a tree bends, so shall it grow; As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined; As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it; As you sow so shall you reap; Ask a silly question and you will get a silly answer; Ask my companion if I be a thief; Ask no questions and hear no lies; Attack is the best form of defense; At the end of my rope

  4. Tempus fugit - Wikipedia

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    An example of the phrase as a sundial motto in Redu, Belgium.. Tempus fugit is typically employed as an admonition against sloth and procrastination (cf. carpe diem) rather than an argument for licentiousness (cf. "gather ye rosebuds while ye may"); the English form is often merely descriptive: "time flies like the wind", "time flies when you're having fun".

  5. Sentence processing - Wikipedia

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    For example, the sentence Time flies like an arrow has (at least) the interpretations Time moves as quickly as an arrow, A special kind of fly, called time fly, likes arrows and Measure the speed of flies like you would measure the speed of an arrow. Usually, readers will be aware of only the first interpretation.

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  7. Talk : Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

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    And technicality has nothing to do here. I do know that a crow flies in a straight path, "as the crow flies", but it is "straight as an arrow", not "straight as an arrow flies". Also '"Time" flies like and arrow' is not the same sentence as 'Time flies like an arrow', if you want to dig linguistics here. And so on.

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    At the time, Nugent thought her daughter meant fiction; now, she thinks Isabel may have been on online suicide forums, where people encourage others to end their lives and offer detailed ...

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    A Missouri couple has been charged with child abuse after police claim they performed a circumcision on a child at their home despite not having the medical training to do so.