time flies
Days slip away
Time flies expresses how quickly time seems to pass, especially during enjoyable experiences or in retrospect: I can't believe it's already midnight—time flies when you're having fun.
The phrase captures the subjective experience of time accelerating, often tinged with wistfulness about how much has elapsed: It's been ten years? Time flies.
- carpe diemGrasp the present moment
- fleetingPassing very quickly
- momentaryLasting very briefly
- ephemeralLasting very briefly
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
days gone by · good old days · golden years · swift · passing · blink of an eye · before you know it · transient · seize the day · tempus fugit · wistfulness · surprise · childhood · impermanent · life is short · evanescent · years · melancholy
- idiomshit the sack, seize the day, ring a bell, break a leg, barking up the wrong tree
- time sayingscarpe diem, seize the day, better late than never, tempus fugit, haste makes waste
- time conceptsclock, calendar, hour, minute, second
- time perceptionduration, temporal distortion, internal clock, slow motion, fleeting
- seize todaycarpe diem, seize the day, seize the moment, live for today, present moment
- time distortionsslow motion, fast forward