Architects - balance - let their rules slide.

Artists - get brushed off.

Attorneys - lose their briefs - appeal.

Bankers - just lose their interest.

Barbers - just can't cut it anymore.

Baseball Players - strike out.

Beauticians - curl.

Bookkeepers - lose their/get off balance.

Bowlers - don't score as often - strike out.

Bridge Players - aces - pass on.

Bus Drivers - proceed with caution.

Calligraphers - get written off.

Car Dealers - get hard to start.

Carpenters - foundation.

CB'ers - break up - change their handles.

Chemists - fail to react.

Chiropractors - just make adjustments.

Coaches - supporters.

Computer Operators - memory - byte.

Cooks - go to pot.

Cowboys - throw the bull.

Cowgirls - become saddlebags.

Dentists - pull - get down in the mouth.

Dieters - get a little behind.

Doctors - practice - patients

Electricians - watts up - turn you on

Electrical Engineers - spark - 

Engineers - tolerance - precision - lose/know all the angles - not all engineers are civil.

Farmers - go to seed - get plowed under

Firemen - spark

Fishermen - line - smell that way - need new bait

Flight Attendants - get grounded

Florists - get rearranged

Football Players - need more time outs

Funeral Directors - don't dig it

Gardeners - bloomers - spade away - just go to pot

Golfers - drive - putter around - become reckless drivers

Guitarists - pluck

Hunters - stay loaded

Insurance Agents - It's not their policy

Joggers - can't keep up the pace

Knitters - drop their stitches
 

Hams - P.E.P. (peak envelope power) spark

Home Builders - they get board

Lawyers - appeal - briefs

Librarians - check out - get out of date - get overdue

Marines - go to hell to regroup

Mechanics - tools just get rusty

Musicians - go from bar to bar - decompose - just blow away - quit making overtures

Nautical People - get their ship together

Nurses - become panhandlers

Oilmen - get crude

Okies - go sooner

Optometrists - looks - contacts

Pharmacists - potency - never get too old to stir things up - become old pills

Photographers - focus

Pilots - buzz off - stall out - get new wings

Plumbers - drain away

Podiatrists - soles

Policemen - take arrest - beat

Postmen - zip

Preachers - pray away - get put out to pasture

Principals - faculties

Programers - input - byte

Quilters - go to pieces

Racquetball Players - go off the wall

Realtors - grow listless

Rockhounds - slowly petrify

Sailors - wind

Salesmen - go out of commission - line - grip

Seamstresses - stay on pins and needles

Secretaries - touch

Singers - all in achord

Skiers - go downhill

Teachers - class

Telephone Operators - connections 

Tennis Players - advantage - bounce

Texans - they're already in heaven

Truck Drivers - stay loaded - roll on forever - fail to make the grade

Veternarians - go to the dogs

Waiters (Waitresses) - serve smiles without reservations

Col. Sanders never died - he just chickened out.