Close to the bone

Stop on a dime?

Zero-hour contract

Stopped in her tracks?

Toast of the town?

Sacrificial lamb

Two minds?

Sisyphean task

Good Samaritan

In the nosebleeds

Rule of thumb?

What is an entrenched issue?

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

Team player?

In the cross hairs?

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Old saw?

Soul searching

On a wing and a prayer

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

Read the tea leaf?

In the doghouse?

Gold dust

Career break?

Theater of the absurd?

Flip the script?

Place to blow off some steam?

Con artist?

Gaming the system

Peer review