Close to the bone

We just got our head handed to us

In the nosebleeds

Soul searching

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

Political mumbo-jumbo

Peer review

Pants are on fire

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

Stopped in her tracks?

Object lesson?

Sisyphean task

War chest?

On a wing and a prayer

Tall poppy

Career break?

Hit the hay?

Flip the script?

Right side of history?

Spitball some ideas?

Toast of the town?

Zero-hour contract

让阅读《经济学人》成为一种享受

Theater of the absurd?

Coming home to roost?

High wire act

Read the tea leaf?

Social fabric?

Sacrificial lamb

Local democracy bites the dust