What does it mean?
He says he loves deadlines, but the joke is that he always misses them. He imagines a deadline flying past him like a fast car.
Key vocabulary
- deadlines
- times or dates by which work must be finished
- whooshing
- the sound of something moving very fast through the air
Who said it?
Douglas Adams: English writer and humorist (1952–2001). Source: The Salmon of Doubt (2002).