Read the tea leaf?

Old saw?

Hit the hay?

Sacrificial lamb

Peer review

Local democracy bites the dust

In the cross hairs?

让阅读《经济学人》成为一种享受

Herculean proportions?

Stop on a dime?

We just got our head handed to us

Theater of the absurd?

What is an entrenched issue?

Children are not cookie cutters

In the doghouse?

Stopped in her tracks?

伪造的屠呦呦“致辞”为何这么火？

Pants are on fire

Zero-hour contract

Con artist?

Earn your keep?

Bell cow?

Rule of thumb?

At the water’s edge?

On a wing and a prayer

Gold dust

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

Swan song?

Good Samaritan

Close to the bone