Stop on a dime?

Theater of the absurd?

Social fabric?

Sacrificial lamb

War chest?

Object lesson?

莎士比亚：词语创新的能手 遣词造句的高手

Con artist?

Political mumbo-jumbo

Peer review

Soul searching

Herculean proportions?

Gaming the system

Gold dust

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

Zero-hour contract

Right side of history?

What is an entrenched issue?

从翻译角度看中美高校校训[1]

Local democracy bites the dust

Read the tea leaf?

Career break?

On a wing and a prayer

In the cross hairs?

Both sides of the aisle?

Team player?

We just got our head handed to us

Pants are on fire

In the doghouse?

Flip the script?