time flies like a shuttle
The sun and the moon fly like flies. The Chinese idiom, R ì Yu è R ú Su ō in pinyin, means that the sun and the moon come and go like shuttles. It describes how time flies. From Hou Ji Lu.
The origin of Idioms
The second volume of Hou Ji Lu written by Zhao Delin of Song Dynasty: "weaving black, Japan also, weaving like shuttle."
Idiom usage
I think time is like water. The fourth chapter of Zheng Tingyu's renziji in Yuan Dynasty
time flies like a shuttle
Touch the ground and call the sky - chù dì hào tiān
arbitrariness and imperiousness - wǔ duàn zhuān héng
Young dragon and young Phoenix - lóng chú fèng zhǒng
Two in a row and three in a row - lián èr bìng sān
travel after telling the destiny - yōu bì yǒu fāng
one 's eyes could not bear the scene - mù bù rěn dǔ