Gaming the system

In the doghouse?

In the cross hairs?

Hit the hay?

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Read the tea leaf?

Team player?

Toast of the town?

Herculean proportions?

Two minds?

Gold dust

Stopped in her tracks?

Dog whistle politics

Tall poppy

Social fabric?

Political mumbo-jumbo

Pants are on fire

High wire act

Career break?

Con artist?

We just got our head handed to us

Object lesson?

Spitball some ideas?

Old saw?

In the nosebleeds

Place to blow off some steam?

Rule of thumb?

Peer review

Sisyphean task

Soul searching