Herculean proportions?

Social fabric?

Pants are on fire

Local democracy bites the dust

Two minds?

Zero-hour contract

In the cross hairs?

On a wing and a prayer

Read the tea leaf?

Close to the bone

Flip the script?

High wire act

Moments that take our breath away

Stopped in her tracks?

Political mumbo-jumbo

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

In the doghouse?

Object lesson?

莎士比亚：词语创新的能手 遣词造句的高手

Stop on a dime?

Toast of the town?

In the nosebleeds

Peer review

Old saw?

Con artist?

Gaming the system

Spitball some ideas?

Coming home to roost?

Sisyphean task

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