Stop on a dime?

Political mumbo-jumbo

Children are not cookie cutters

High wire act

On a wing and a prayer

Zero-hour contract

Moments that take our breath away

Read the tea leaf?

What is an entrenched issue?

Hit the hay?

Old saw?

Local democracy bites the dust

Sacrificial lamb

Gold dust

Object lesson?

Dog whistle politics

Tall poppy

Place to blow off some steam?

Toast of the town?

Two minds?

Rule of thumb?

Team player?

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

Herculean proportions?

War chest?

Peer review

Spitball some ideas?

Career break?

Right side of history?

Coming home to roost?