We just got our head handed to us

Peer review

Moments that take our breath away

Sacrificial lamb

Hit the hay?

Dog whistle politics

Object lesson?

High wire act

Con artist?

Rule of thumb?

Sisyphean task

War chest?

Close to the bone

Stopped in her tracks?

Soul searching

Team player?

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

Spitball some ideas?

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

Tall poppy

Theater of the absurd?

Herculean proportions?

Gaming the system

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

莎士比亚：词语创新的能手 遣词造句的高手

Zero-hour contract

Read the tea leaf?

Toast of the town?

Coming home to roost?

Children are not cookie cutters