Object lesson?

Coming home to roost?

Gaming the system

We just got our head handed to us

Dog whistle politics

War chest?

Political mumbo-jumbo

Both sides of the aisle?

In the cross hairs?

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

Sacrificial lamb

Sisyphean task

Right side of history?

In the nosebleeds

Close to the bone

Rule of thumb?

Herculean proportions?

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Read the tea leaf?

Hit the hay?

Team player?

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

Peer review

Pants are on fire

Two minds?

Stop on a dime?

Stopped in her tracks?

Spitball some ideas?

Zero-hour contract

Flip the script?