Object lesson?

Social fabric?

Rule of thumb?

In the nosebleeds

Right side of history?

Sacrificial lamb

Gold dust

Herculean proportions?

Sisyphean task

In the doghouse?

Hit the hay?

Two minds?

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Close to the bone

Zero-hour contract

Tall poppy

Theater of the absurd?

On a wing and a prayer

In the cross hairs?

Read the tea leaf?

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Moments that take our breath away

We just got our head handed to us

Team player?

Old saw?

Dog whistle politics

Soul searching

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

Political mumbo-jumbo

Spitball some ideas?