In the doghouse?

Stop on a dime?

Gaming the system

Spitball some ideas?

What is an entrenched issue?

Peer review

We just got our head handed to us

Old saw?

Social fabric?

Coming home to roost?

Herculean proportions?

Children are not cookie cutters

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

Zero-hour contract

Rule of thumb?

Read the tea leaf?

Object lesson?

Tall poppy

Soul searching

Local democracy bites the dust

In the nosebleeds

Moments that take our breath away

Gold dust

On a wing and a prayer

莎士比亚：词语创新的能手 遣词造句的高手

In the cross hairs?

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

Con artist?

Both sides of the aisle?

Pants are on fire