Con artist?

On a wing and a prayer

Stopped in her tracks?

Zero-hour contract

Close to the bone

Pants are on fire

In the cross hairs?

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

Dog whistle politics

Soul searching

Peer review

Flip the script?

Spitball some ideas?

Rule of thumb?

Read the tea leaf?

Sacrificial lamb

Coming home to roost?

Team player?

莎士比亚：词语创新的能手 遣词造句的高手

Old saw?

Place to blow off some steam?

Political mumbo-jumbo

Theater of the absurd?

Sisyphean task

What is an entrenched issue?

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

Career break?

In the doghouse?

Social fabric?

Herculean proportions?