Old saw?

Stopped in her tracks?

让阅读《经济学人》成为一种享受

A bucket list goal?

What is an entrenched issue?

Political mumbo-jumbo

Peer review

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

High wire act

Con artist?

Object lesson?

Team player?

Earn your keep?

Zero-hour contract

Social fabric?

Going back to the drawing board?

In the cross hairs?

Gold dust

Hit the hay?

Sacrificial lamb

Gaming the system

Theater of the absurd?

Right side of history?

In the doghouse?

Tall poppy

Good Samaritan

Read the tea leaf?

Close to the bone

Swan song?

Local democracy bites the dust