Rule of thumb?

Zero-hour contract

Coming home to roost?

Sacrificial lamb

Theater of the absurd?

Close to the bone

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High wire act

We just got our head handed to us

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Two minds?

Herculean proportions?

Peer review

Place to blow off some steam?

Dog whistle politics

Political mumbo-jumbo

Local democracy bites the dust

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

Flip the script?

Tall poppy

On a wing and a prayer

Object lesson?

Moments that take our breath away

Con artist?

Social fabric?

Gaming the system

Team player?

Soul searching

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

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