Sacrificial lamb

Herculean proportions?

Rule of thumb?

Gaming the system

Team player?

Soul searching

Zero-hour contract

Con artist?

Place to blow off some steam?

Coming home to roost?

High wire act

Right side of history?

What is an entrenched issue?

Close to the bone

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

Read the tea leaf?

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

Dog whistle politics

Local democracy bites the dust

Object lesson?

Moments that take our breath away

We just got our head handed to us

莎士比亚：词语创新的能手 遣词造句的高手

Theater of the absurd?

Peer review

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

On a wing and a prayer

Political mumbo-jumbo

War chest?

Career break?