Political mumbo-jumbo

Old saw?

Tall poppy

Stop on a dime?

Sisyphean task

Career break?

Herculean proportions?

Theater of the absurd?

Soul searching

We just got our head handed to us

Object lesson?

Gold dust

Children are not cookie cutters

Team player?

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Peer review

Close to the bone

Spitball some ideas?

In the doghouse?

What is an entrenched issue?

In the cross hairs?

War chest?

Social fabric?

Two minds?

Local democracy bites the dust

Pants are on fire

On a wing and a prayer

Rule of thumb?

Toast of the town?

Flip the script?