time flies when you're having fun

English

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Proverb

time flies when you're having fun

1. Time seems to pass more quickly when one is enjoying oneself.
   • 1991, Ski, volume 56, number 3, page 102:

     "Time flies when you're having fun!" said one of the skiers in our party. "Yeah, but time's more fun when you're flying," Jay one-upped.

Translations

time seems to pass more quickly when enjoying oneself

Italian: il tempo vola quando ci si diverte Korean: 신선놀음에 도낏자루 썩는 줄 모른다 (ko) (sinseonnoreum-e dokkitjaru sseongneun jul moreunda, literally “Caught up in the Daoist immortals' game [of Go], you forget that the handle of your hatchet is rotting”) Portuguese: o tempo voa quando a gente se diverte Swedish: tiden går fort när man har roligt Ukrainian: час летить, коли вам весело (čas letytʹ, koly vam veselo)

See also

• a watched pot never boils