Read the tea leaf?

Social fabric?

Zero-hour contract

Career break?

Theater of the absurd?

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

Dog whistle politics

Peer review

Children are not cookie cutters

Pants are on fire

High wire act

We just got our head handed to us

Toast of the town?

Political mumbo-jumbo

Con artist?

Local democracy bites the dust

Old saw?

Gold dust

Right side of history?

Place to blow off some steam?

Rule of thumb?

In the cross hairs?

Both sides of the aisle?

Stop on a dime?

Moments that take our breath away

In the nosebleeds

Gaming the system

Flip the script?

Two minds?

In the doghouse?