the watch of time

Still summertime, still more enlivened clichés (with the originals in italics):

• If you take the time to run circles around the instruction changes, no one will miss seeing them
• After all, I had three, so now the shoe is on the other foot
• Their pitcher had to serve up a lollipop because his team ran out of baseballs
• Since you have too many flashlights to make use of, shed some light on the pile there so as to reduce the weight
• The guy thought it would be a blast to swallow bullets, then try to shoot from the hip
• Only a stationery supplier would think to term that cheese taste sharp as a tack
• A shoestring budget wouldn’t be necessary if we had some paper to write on
• Wouldn’t you know it, she just got a package of uniquely designed ones and now she’s lost her marbles
• Rome wasn’t built in a day only schedule, some night and holiday work was involved
• The rest of the clay will be arranged either to fill the shape up or ship out what’s not needed