the watch of time

Spring in fact, if not in deed, starts tomorrow – so here’s more warmth from enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):

• The grant for Dr. Frankenstein’s experiments was reduced, so all he could do was make heads or tails
• The fact there was no accounting for taste in estimating corporate goodwill really upset the chocolatier
• Money doesn’t grow on trees, however, many seemingly good schemes are truncated in the bud
• To ensure equilibrium, since we already have an unneeded good, we’ll also require a necessary evil
• Make no bones about it if you want to build the patio with a skeleton-less look  
• The tricky mime is making money hand over fist by pretending he’s hiding something in his clenched fingers
• If you don’t like night and day, you’re going to be hibernating for a long time
• In olden days, if the cannoneers kept missing the boat they were put back on rifle duty
• By switching medical plans to a new lease on life, the monthly premium is more reasonable
• The grant for Dr. Frankenstein’s experiments has just been increased, so now he can afford to make nerves of steel