the watch of time

The end of January is nigh, so time to enjoy the occasion with the 50^th edition of updated clichés (with originals in italics):

• When I visit someone and find out the hard way their fireplace is real, that burns me up
• Until a different design of the ball becomes popular, that’s the way the ball bounces
• That’s a wrap for the last mummy to be put on display
• The first one of you that hits the spot wins the drooling contest
• Here’s the compromise: this group takes the fruit basket, while that takes the cake
• You could say that was cold-blooded since the plasma came directly from refrigeration
• It feels like that’s a load off my mind, now that the blocks of wood have been lifted from my head
• One package of seeds is for planting, while that’s for the birds  
• Believe it or not, that’s the ticket I was about to throw away until I discovered it was a winner
• That’s water under the bridge, for those of you needing a basic lesson in traffic design over rivers and streams