Sisyphean task

Herculean proportions?

Object lesson?

Close to the bone

Flip the script?

Gaming the system

Theater of the absurd?

Local democracy bites the dust

Sacrificial lamb

Pants are on fire

Stop on a dime?

Hit the hay?

Peer review

Old saw?

War chest?

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Team player?

Soul searching

Dog whistle politics

Con artist?

In the nosebleeds

Tall poppy

Zero-hour contract

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Career break?

Spitball some ideas?

Place to blow off some steam?

Coming home to roost?

In the doghouse?