Read the tea leaf?

Local democracy bites the dust

Hit the hay?

Children are not cookie cutters

Tall poppy

Stop on a dime?

Con artist?

Team player?

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

Right side of history?

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

Career break?

Zero-hour contract

Rule of thumb?

Two minds?

Close to the bone

Place to blow off some steam?

Social fabric?

High wire act

Political mumbo-jumbo

Sacrificial lamb

Dog whistle politics

Theater of the absurd?

Stopped in her tracks?

Coming home to roost?

Pants are on fire

Flip the script?

Object lesson?

Old saw?

Sisyphean task