Local democracy bites the dust

Old saw?

Coming home to roost?

Peer review

Political mumbo-jumbo

Social fabric?

Close to the bone

Object lesson?

Soul searching

What is an entrenched issue?

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

Stopped in her tracks?

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

Tall poppy

Sacrificial lamb

Place to blow off some steam?

Career break?

Toast of the town?

In the nosebleeds

Con artist?

We just got our head handed to us

In the doghouse?

Flip the script?

Two minds?

Read the tea leaf?

High wire act

Zero-hour contract

Stop on a dime?

Moments that take our breath away

Herculean proportions?