Object lesson?

Old saw?

Career break?

Theater of the absurd?

Peer review

Gaming the system

We just got our head handed to us

Tall poppy

Pants are on fire

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Coming home to roost?

Hit the hay?

Rule of thumb?

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Gold dust

Toast of the town?

Both sides of the aisle?

Two minds?

In the cross hairs?

Spitball some ideas?

Flip the script?

Place to blow off some steam?

In the nosebleeds

Con artist?

On a wing and a prayer

High wire act

Dog whistle politics

What is an entrenched issue?

War chest?

Soul searching