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Rule of thumb?

Career break?

Hit the hay?

In the doghouse?

War chest?

Soul searching

Coming home to roost?

Spitball some ideas?

Dog whistle politics

Local democracy bites the dust

Pants are on fire

What is an entrenched issue?

Toast of the town?

High wire act

Con artist?

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Theater of the absurd?

In the nosebleeds

Herculean proportions?

On a wing and a prayer

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Object lesson?

Moments that take our breath away

Place to blow off some steam?

Tall poppy

Zero-hour contract

Both sides of the aisle?

Sisyphean task

Gaming the system