On a wing and a prayer

Hit the hay?

Herculean proportions?

Gaming the system

Peer review

Object lesson?

Social fabric?

Dog whistle politics

At the water’s edge?

Pants are on fire

Theater of the absurd?

Con artist?

Swan song?

Read the tea leaf?

Career break?

Close to the bone

Political mumbo-jumbo

In the nosebleeds

Tall poppy

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

We just got our head handed to us

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

Earn your keep?

让阅读《经济学人》成为一种享受

Old saw?

In the doghouse?

High wire act

Stopped in her tracks?

What is an entrenched issue?

Going back to the drawing board?