Rule of thumb?

Read the tea leaf?

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

Herculean proportions?

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Spitball some ideas?

Political mumbo-jumbo

What is an entrenched issue?

Zero-hour contract

Gold dust

Sisyphean task

Both sides of the aisle?

Dog whistle politics

In the nosebleeds

Social fabric?

Hit the hay?

Object lesson?

Place to blow off some steam?

Local democracy bites the dust

Flip the script?

War chest?

We just got our head handed to us

Career break?

Pants are on fire

Two minds?

Sacrificial lamb

Peer review

Soul searching

In the cross hairs?

Gaming the system