War chest?

Tall poppy

Spitball some ideas?

Close to the bone

Con artist?

Old saw?

Stopped in her tracks?

Rule of thumb?

Local democracy bites the dust

Herculean proportions?

Right side of history?

Flip the script?

Sacrificial lamb

Career break?

Children are not cookie cutters

High wire act

Social fabric?

In the doghouse?

We just got our head handed to us

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Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

Two minds?

Read the tea leaf?

Zero-hour contract

What is an entrenched issue?

Stop on a dime?

Team player?

Sisyphean task

Coming home to roost?

Peer review