Herculean proportions?

Hit the hay?

Old saw?

In the cross hairs?

让阅读《经济学人》成为一种享受

Two minds?

Theater of the absurd?

Read the tea leaf?

Zero-hour contract

Pants are on fire

In the doghouse?

Object lesson?

Toast of the town?

We just got our head handed to us

Local democracy bites the dust

Coming home to roost?

Flip the script?

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

Team player?

Place to blow off some steam?

In the nosebleeds

莎士比亚：词语创新的能手 遣词造句的高手

Spitball some ideas?

Peer review

Gold dust

Stopped in her tracks?

Close to the bone

Dog whistle politics

Political mumbo-jumbo

Career break?