Maricopa County Sheriff's Office controversies. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) is a law enforcement agency in Maricopa County, Arizona that has been involved in many controversies since 1995.
It was then used to mean 'a sudden state of activity (or inactivity) or state of mind', as in this early example, taken from William Warner's Albion's England, 1586: His seruants fear his solemn fittes.. The phrase 'fits and starts' is somewhat tautological, as both allude to sporadic activity.
Tempus fugit. Tempus fugit is a Latin phrase, usually translated into English as time flies. The expression comes from line 284 of book 3 of Virgil's Georgics, where it appears as fugit inreparabile tempus: it escapes, irretrievable time. The phrase is used in both its Latin and English forms as a proverb that time's a-wasting.