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The point of the example is that the correct parsing of the second sentence, "fruit flies like a banana", is not the one that the reader starts to build, by assuming that "fruit" is a noun (the subject), "flies" is the main verb, and "like" as a preposition. The reader only discovers that the parsing is incorrect when it gets to the "banana".
"The expression is based on the proverb: "Time flies", a translation of the Latin Tempus fugit. This translation is misleading to the modern English speaker, because the Latin fugit did not mean fly in the sense of aviation, but in the sense of flee (cf. "fugitive"); in modern English to say "fly" when meaning "flee" would be unusual.
I just heard, "swallowed the spider to catch the fly" used as an aphorism, meaning ingesting some kind of harmful substance in order to achieve some ends. It seemed quite clever. Is this a common saying? Could it have predated this song, or is it a relative new saying, or could this have been a coining of the term that I heard.
An adult fruit fly is a strong flier that's been known to travel 30 miles in search of food and sites to lay eggs, giving it the ability to infest new areas quickly, according to the food and ...
Additionally, fruit flies gravitate toward sugar substances like soda, fruit juice and candy. Fermentation: Similarly, fruit flies are often attracted to the smell of fermented foods and drinks ...
Drosophila melanogaster is a species of fly (an insect of the order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae.The species is often referred to as the fruit fly or lesser fruit fly, or less commonly the "vinegar fly", "pomace fly", [a] [5] or "banana fly". [6]
The discovery of 20 invasive Tau fruit flies prompted quarantine of produce of a neighborhood in Los Angeles County, the California Department of Food and Agriculture announced.
Anastrepha ludens, the Mexican fruit fly or Mexfly, [1] is a species of fly of the Anastrepha genus in the Tephritidae family (fruit flies). It is closely related to the Caribbean fruit fly Anastrepha suspensa , and the papaya fruit fly Anastrepha curvicauda .