Why was the calendar feeling so stressed out right after the holiday season?
Its days were flying by too fast.
Time often feels like it moves quickly when life is busy, leading to the expression that days are flying. Because a calendar is made of pages designed to be flipped rapidly, the idiom becomes a literal description of its changing months.
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