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Chris -- 2018-04-11
‘Tempest fugit’ is seen mostly as a deliberate play on words; among other things, it’s the name of a racehorse and a rock band, and the title of an episode of ‘The Incredible Hulk.’ However, there are plenty of innocent uses, and ‘tempest’ eggcornically captures the intended reference to the stormy and unsettling feeling of the flight of time. Examples:
So anyway I need to sell my car, find a shipping company that will take my stuff back to the UK and buy some plane tickets. Tempest fugit!
alkam.blogdrive.com/archive/156.html
Tempest Fugit, but I’m not ready to boogy with the Grim Reaper just yet.
torch.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/blog/category/linux/
Tempest fugit, like a runaway train, headed in a single direction, at high speed and with no brakes. With the Psalmist I realize that my life is short; ...
www.stanford.edu/group/ ivfaculty/Essays/20020128JJ.shtml
Are strip malls and McDonalds in the village replacing Mr. Carey’s little white building? Tempest Fugit.
www.eastislip.org/Pages/ Memory%20Lane/freda/follenders.htm
Grapevine Cottage : Beautiful Sunshine Coast, Roberts Creek BC…The welcoming gate outside Grapevine cottage reads “tempest fugit”- Time Fly’s. Enter the gate and feel time stand still.
www.user.dccnet.com/grapevine/location.html
“Tempest fugit” in the Latin, time flies that is, and I was running out of it!
www.joemac.net/Ravings/GoingOff.html
I can’t believe summer is over and school is starting—Tempest Fugit!
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