What is an entrenched issue?

Social fabric?

Bell cow?

In the cross hairs?

Stopped in her tracks?

Theater of the absurd?

Gold dust

Right side of history?

Close to the bone

Sacrificial lamb

In the doghouse?

Earn your keep?

Soul searching

Gaming the system

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伪造的屠呦呦“致辞”为何这么火？

At the water’s edge?

Stop on a dime?

Read the tea leaf?

Zero-hour contract

Con artist?

In the nosebleeds

Political mumbo-jumbo

On a wing and a prayer

Rule of thumb?

Old saw?

Swan song?

Pants are on fire

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

Herculean proportions?