What is an entrenched issue?

Both sides of the aisle?

Flip the script?

Zero-hour contract

Local democracy bites the dust

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

Soul searching

Object lesson?

Sacrificial lamb

Moments that take our breath away

Place to blow off some steam?

In the nosebleeds

Rule of thumb?

Two minds?

In the doghouse?

Children are not cookie cutters

Con artist?

Stopped in her tracks?

Tall poppy

We just got our head handed to us

In the cross hairs?

Theater of the absurd?

Gaming the system

Sisyphean task

Stop on a dime?

Peer review

Dog whistle politics

Hit the hay?

Team player?

Social fabric?