Toast of the town?

Coming home to roost?

War chest?

Gold dust

Zero-hour contract

What is an entrenched issue?

Con artist?

Children are not cookie cutters

Soul searching

Tall poppy

Theater of the absurd?

Team player?

Career break?

Right side of history?

Sacrificial lamb

Object lesson?

In the nosebleeds

莎士比亚：词语创新的能手 遣词造句的高手

In the doghouse?

Local democracy bites the dust

High wire act

Social fabric?

In the cross hairs?

Dog whistle politics

Political mumbo-jumbo

Spitball some ideas?

Stopped in her tracks?

Moments that take our breath away

Stop on a dime?

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”