the watch of time

Holiday weekend time, with more enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):

• Sitting on your toes is a good way to create compressed toenails
• I’ll ask you to pencil it in, just so we have a complete box of your colouring
• One good turn deserves another turn as a bonus, which ends when overturned
• Apparently the closed book didn’t take up enough space, so an open book policy was adapted
• If a penny for your thoughts doesn’t appeal to you, how about a quarter for your expectations?
• The atmosphere improved greatly once the chili eaters ran out of gas
• The new version of Monopoly may switch passing GO & collecting $200 to pay as you go
• One in a million times is about as good odds as that contest will generate
• Forth coming, once burned, twice shy, thrice watchful
• I would like to phone it in the comfort of my vacation property, so I can hear it’s reaction