the watch of time

It’s the transitional Labour Day weekend, so here’s celebrating with more enriched clichés (with the originals in italics):

• For a problem lasting as long as the seven year itch you have to cope with trying lots of medication
• Shoot the breeze if you’re such a hot-to-trot firearms expert
• Shoot yourself in the foot of the impressive gorge for a picturesque backdrop
• You can reach the spot directly if you scratch your back with the short end of the stick
• It’s probably thanks to a short fuse that the welding didn’t hold the multi-level sculpture together
• She’s a peach in that she loves to wear fuzzy pink and orange jumpsuits filled with helium
• Show some backbone if you want us to believe you’re recreated the full skeleton
• Let’s try giving it a shot in the dark to see if that pulsating golf ball will work
• Apparently he keeps forgetting that it’s there, so if we show him the door he won’t crack the frame
• I know that’s a long-range weapon, but shooting for the moon is still completely unrealistic