Object lesson?

Right side of history?

Read the tea leaf?

Team player?

Flip the script?

Gaming the system

Rule of thumb?

让阅读《经济学人》成为一种享受

Stop on a dime?

Sisyphean task

In the cross hairs?

Dog whistle politics

Sacrificial lamb

Close to the bone

Con artist?

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

High wire act

War chest?

We just got our head handed to us

Children are not cookie cutters

Soul searching

Both sides of the aisle?

Pants are on fire

Social fabric?

Local democracy bites the dust

Zero-hour contract

Hit the hay?

Theater of the absurd?

Gold dust

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”