Rule of thumb?

Con artist?

Both sides of the aisle?

Close to the bone

Children are not cookie cutters

Political mumbo-jumbo

Peer review

Old saw?

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Object lesson?

Gold dust

Team player?

Career break?

In the doghouse?

Spitball some ideas?

Tall poppy

What is an entrenched issue?

Place to blow off some steam?

Two minds?

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

Local democracy bites the dust

Social fabric?

Stopped in her tracks?

Zero-hour contract

Herculean proportions?

High wire act

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Hit the hay?

Soul searching

Pants are on fire