Herculean proportions?

Flip the script?

Gold dust

Spitball some ideas?

Toast of the town?

Team player?

Place to blow off some steam?

Zero-hour contract

Soul searching

Right side of history?

Con artist?

Theater of the absurd?

Sacrificial lamb

Object lesson?

Children are not cookie cutters

Both sides of the aisle?

Coming home to roost?

Close to the bone

Pants are on fire

Hit the hay?

In the nosebleeds

Dog whistle politics

Local democracy bites the dust

We just got our head handed to us

Stop on a dime?

Rule of thumb?

Tall poppy

In the cross hairs?

Gaming the system

High wire act