Children are not cookie cutters

Hit the hay?

Tall poppy

Theater of the absurd?

Career break?

Rule of thumb?

Gaming the system

Right side of history?

On a wing and a prayer

We just got our head handed to us

Spitball some ideas?

Object lesson?

In the cross hairs?

Local democracy bites the dust

Coming home to roost?

What is an entrenched issue?

Toast of the town?

Close to the bone

Team player?

Peer review

Dog whistle politics

Flip the script?

Two minds?

War chest?

Gold dust

Stop on a dime?

High wire act

Both sides of the aisle?

Soul searching

Sacrificial lamb