Sacrificial lamb

What is an entrenched issue?

Theater of the absurd?

Toast of the town?

Political mumbo-jumbo

Right side of history?

Close to the bone

Dog whistle politics

Con artist?

Place to blow off some steam?

Tall poppy

Local democracy bites the dust

Herculean proportions?

Zero-hour contract

Career break?

Peer review

High wire act

Spitball some ideas?

In the cross hairs?

We just got our head handed to us

Coming home to roost?

Soul searching

In the nosebleeds

War chest?

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Children are not cookie cutters

Pants are on fire

Flip the script?

Moments that take our breath away

Read the tea leaf?