the watch of time

Time to bask in the glow of more enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):

• Being short on instruments is one thing, but trying to play the field is going to take a lot of suspension of belief from the audience
• Now that shaking the box is over the top should reveal some of those elusive raisins
• The play with the big boys was far from a classic, as there was anemic character development
• Once the play was over my head stopped spinning from the lack of character development
• We can probably cope with poisoning the well, as long as maybe and O.K. are left alone
• A quick buck from the mule shows it’s still mobile but has a temper
• The good thing about the pot calling the kettle black is that at least they’re talking
• Get them out of that circular corral if you want them to quit horsing around
• Assuming the plain as day is really only valid for about 17 of the 24 hours
• The British shopkeeper wouldn’t accept any foreign currency so transactions had to completed pound for pound