Old saw?

Gold dust

We just got our head handed to us

On a wing and a prayer

Peer review

High wire act

Toast of the town?

Coming home to roost?

Career break?

Stopped in her tracks?

Sisyphean task

莎士比亚：词语创新的能手 遣词造句的高手

Rule of thumb?

Object lesson?

Soul searching

In the cross hairs?

Local democracy bites the dust

War chest?

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

Political mumbo-jumbo

Spitball some ideas?

Dog whistle politics

Close to the bone

Stop on a dime?

Social fabric?

What is an entrenched issue?

Children are not cookie cutters

Place to blow off some steam?

Pants are on fire

Tall poppy