Theater of the absurd?

Read the tea leaf?

Local democracy bites the dust

Place to blow off some steam?

Rule of thumb?

Coming home to roost?

In the cross hairs?

Sisyphean task

Right side of history?

Tall poppy

Toast of the town?

Gaming the system

Children are not cookie cutters

Zero-hour contract

We just got our head handed to us

Stop on a dime?

Herculean proportions?

What is an entrenched issue?

Both sides of the aisle?

Object lesson?

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Con artist?

Close to the bone

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Moments that take our breath away

Career break?

Team player?

In the nosebleeds

On a wing and a prayer

Hit the hay?