Tall poppy

Good Samaritan

What is an entrenched issue?

Earn your keep?

Place to blow off some steam?

Rule of thumb?

Golden rule?

Gold dust

Hit the hay?

Con artist?

Political mumbo-jumbo

Theater of the absurd?

Right side of history?

We just got our head handed to us

Local democracy bites the dust

Read the tea leaf?

High wire act

Herculean proportions?

Children are not cookie cutters

On a wing and a prayer

Old saw?

Bell cow?

Gaming the system

Career break?

Soul searching

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Dog whistle politics

In the doghouse?

In the cross hairs?

At the water’s edge?