High wire act

We just got our head handed to us

Read the tea leaf?

Local democracy bites the dust

In the cross hairs?

On a wing and a prayer

让阅读《经济学人》成为一种享受

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

Political mumbo-jumbo

Zero-hour contract

Theater of the absurd?

Close to the bone

Two minds?

Peer review

莎士比亚：词语创新的能手 遣词造句的高手

Place to blow off some steam?

Right side of history?

Stopped in her tracks?

Object lesson?

Sisyphean task

Career break?

Spitball some ideas?

Gold dust

War chest?

Coming home to roost?

In the nosebleeds

Toast of the town?

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Pants are on fire

Soul searching