Theater of the absurd?

Sisyphean task

Flip the script?

Gaming the system

Social fabric?

Coming home to roost?

Local democracy bites the dust

Children are not cookie cutters

Sacrificial lamb

Object lesson?

莎士比亚：词语创新的能手 遣词造句的高手

In the cross hairs?

Two minds?

Tall poppy

In the doghouse?

Old saw?

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

In the nosebleeds

On a wing and a prayer

Spitball some ideas?

Career break?

让阅读《经济学人》成为一种享受

Stopped in her tracks?

Read the tea leaf?

Hit the hay?

Dog whistle politics

Toast of the town?

Political mumbo-jumbo

High wire act

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?