the watch of time

It’s the end of a hot July, and here’s more cool enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):

• Sorry about the bad throw, it went through the gutter and right up your alley
• He’s such a devotee of that vintage he doesn’t mind scraping the bottom of the barrel to get every drop of wine
• Be careful of the vegetation because it’s rough around the edges of the forest
• If you want to keep playing the same old song and dance your way through explaining why, then go for it
• Roll out the red carpet to celebrate its being the first new product of our floor coverings factory
• First practice not being scared of your own shadow before you worry about other people’s
• Having so much of it means that rolling in the dough becomes a relaxing, if messy, exercise option
• If you want to understand how potent it is, here’s a jar, save your breath, and take a whiff later
• Since their so-called solution was rotten to the core of the problem, we got nowhere
• The second banana was left out too long, so they used it in a sundae