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Noun Concept
Categories: Linguistic example sentences, Ambiguity, English phrases
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Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana  Fruit flies like a banana  fruit flies like bananas  Time flies like a banana  Time flies like an arrow
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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. Wikipedia
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