roll by
literary— phrasal verb with roll uk/rəʊl/us/roʊl/verb
If an amount of time rolls by, it passes:
The years rolled by, and I didn't see her again until she was married with two children.
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Spending time & time passing
- all the time in the world idiom
- Anno Domini
- course
- elapse
- employ
- fall
- fall away
- misspend
- pass
- passage
- passing
- run
- sand
- spread sth over sth
- the sands of time are running out idiom
- tick
- tick away/by
- time and tide wait for no man idiom
- time flies idiom
- while
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