the watch of time

More daylight, more time to look into enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):

• Our pronoun supply is a little shaky, as we have plenty of you and them, but we’re out of it
• Given that he purchased pearls before swine you could say the farmer’s auction priorities were askew
• The negative sensory support group’s motto ‘out of sight, out of mind’ is bringing in some rather bizarre clientele
• The doctor suggested he try being a penny pincher as a substitute for pinching stranger’s cheeks
• Since the paint store was out of the clear blue, we had to buy a translucent version of it
• The ‘pick of the litter’ prize went to the storyteller who had the least trashy content
• One gets paid, money goes into pocket, one buys stuff, money goes out of pocket
• They’ve been so elusive we’ve had to pin our hopes on the bulletin board to reflect on them more easily
• Fighting over a barrel is hard on the back, so let’s just stick to the carpeted floor
• Once the piles of dirt hardened, we had to remove one piece of cake at a time