Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
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"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" is a humorous saying that is used in linguistics as an example of a garden path sentence or 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.
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See also
- List of linguistic example sentences
- Sentence processing
- Syntactic ambiguity
- Antanaclasis
- Amphibology
- Paraprosdokian
- Perverb
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