the watch of time

Time to celebrate the end of the year, and be ‘taken’ by more updated clichés (with originals in italics):

• If your walkway needs more lift, take a step back from the stack in the garage and add it in front
• Once you take care of your knitting a new yarn to tell the public, maybe they’ll give you some slack
• Don’t let her have the satisfaction of taking it to the limit of your patience
• Take the plunge of the stock market for now in stride if you want a chance for better long-term returns
• Just try to take it from me if you think you deserve it more than I do
• By only taking it with a grain of salt you won’t really upset your sodium chloride limit
• We’re short of nets, so someone needs to break into the shop and take one for the team
• If he didn’t let his hands get so sticky it wouldn’t be such a problem to take the gloves off
• Let’s put up with taking the bull by the horns of the raucous New Year’s Eve crowd, so it will seem like we’re playing along
• The megalomaniac meteorologist tried to take the world by storm after his attempts to influence high tides didn’t work