"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana," is a saying, often interpreted humorously, that is used in linguistics as an example of a garden path sentence and syntactic ambiguity, and in word play as an example of punning, double entendre, and antanaclasis. A fairly common variant is, "Time flies like the wind; fruit flies like a banana." The semicolon is sometimes replaced by a full stop, or the second half may be preceded by the word but. Some versions have bananas instead of a banana. History The expression is based on the proverb: "Time flies", a translation of the Latin T...