Stopped in her tracks?

On a wing and a prayer

Sisyphean task

Con artist?

Pants are on fire

Local democracy bites the dust

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

Object lesson?

Toast of the town?

从翻译角度看中美高校校训[1]

Gold dust

In the cross hairs?

Theater of the absurd?

Two minds?

Moments that take our breath away

Gaming the system

Dog whistle politics

Close to the bone

Coming home to roost?

Old saw?

Hit the hay?

Flip the script?

Tall poppy

What is an entrenched issue?

Soul searching

Zero-hour contract

Read the tea leaf?

Right side of history?

Team player?

Political mumbo-jumbo