Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do or do without.

...since Noah was a bow hook. - Used to indicate a length of time such as how long someone had been a friend. I've never heard this one used by anyone but my father, a Navy man. For the less-than-nautical, a bow hook is the title of the person who mans the boat hook, a long pole with a brass hook on the end used to hold a boat alongside, to push off from a dock or other boat, or to snatch buoys and lines from the water.

Hotter than a two-dollar pistol...