SWEPT OFF MY FOOT
Credit: Joseph Appel

The answers to the clues below are familiar expressions - almost. For example, SWEPT OFF MY FOOT could be the answer to NOT QUITE HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE.

1. Not a very good dancer - but not too bad
2. Clumsy - but only at times
3. Prone to drop things occasionally
4. Let me give you a pretty big hug
5. Pretty narrow escape
6. "Listen carefully to most of what I say."
7. "I am listening carefully to most of what you say."
8. Mostly welcome vision from the past

Answers:

1. One left foot
2. All thumb
3. Butterfinger
4. Take you in my arm
5. By the skin of my tooth
6. "Read my lip."
7. "I'm all ear."
8.  Sight for sore eye