time flies like a shuttle(rì yuè rú suō)

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

Chinese PinYin : rì yuè rú suō