What is an entrenched issue?

Spitball some ideas?

Political mumbo-jumbo

Gold dust

We just got our head handed to us

Dog whistle politics

Close to the bone

Both sides of the aisle?

High wire act

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

Tall poppy

Peer review

Career break?

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Toast of the town?

Pants are on fire

Rule of thumb?

Object lesson?

Sacrificial lamb

Old saw?

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

In the doghouse?

Zero-hour contract

Hit the hay?

Herculean proportions?

Soul searching

Con artist?

Theater of the absurd?

Right side of history?

In the nosebleeds