Close to the bone

In the cross hairs?

Read the tea leaf?

让阅读《经济学人》成为一种享受

Herculean proportions?

Political mumbo-jumbo

In the nosebleeds

Tall poppy

Object lesson?

Earn your keep?

Zero-hour contract

Team player?

Soul searching

Tip of the iceberg?

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

Dog whistle politics

Swan song?

Old saw?

Right side of history?

Children are not cookie cutters

Peer review

At the water’s edge?

从翻译角度看中美高校校训[1]

Hit the hay?

Local democracy bites the dust

Place to blow off some steam?

High wire act

Theater of the absurd?

Social fabric?

Gold dust