Hit the hay?

Zero-hour contract

Herculean proportions?

Rule of thumb?

On a wing and a prayer

Old saw?

Object lesson?

War chest?

Tall poppy

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Right side of history?

Soul searching

Gaming the system

Moments that take our breath away

Sacrificial lamb

Coming home to roost?

Stop on a dime?

Local democracy bites the dust

What is an entrenched issue?

Place to blow off some steam?

Gold dust

Stopped in her tracks?

We just got our head handed to us

Dog whistle politics

In the doghouse?

Children are not cookie cutters

Pants are on fire

Social fabric?

Two minds?

Political mumbo-jumbo