the watch of time

Happy New Year – a new batch of enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):

• If your watch stops working, we’ll rush into the field and depend on just a cotton pickin’ minute
• Look, That is on trial, I’m in charge here, so I’ll be the judge of That
• The winner of our mid-winter survival contest will be in the hot seat of a new car at 5:00 pm tomorrow
• It’s not over till it’s over is the reminder formula to flip evenly for good pancakes
• In the proposed Esperanto version of time identification, measuring in the nick of time will be equal to a minute
• You have to jump on the bandwagon because they’re not slowing down for anybody
• She plans to swallow a mini-calculator hoping people will realize that with her it’s what’s on the inside that counts
• I didn’t want to eat the whole dark chocolate cake at once, so I’ve had it up to here
• It’s in the bag since we didn’t have any other ready place to store It after capture
• The jury is still out of the coarsely grained voting markers they want in order to avoid leaving fingerprints