Close to the bone

Right side of history?

Dog whistle politics

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Read the tea leaf?

Gaming the system

Local democracy bites the dust

Earn your keep?

At the water’s edge?

Sacrificial lamb

Children are not cookie cutters

Old saw?

Herculean proportions?

Stopped in her tracks?

Career break?

What is an entrenched issue?

Golden rule?

Peer review

Team player?

Bell cow?

In the cross hairs?

Tall poppy

Place to blow off some steam?

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

In the doghouse?

Gold dust

Theater of the absurd?

We just got our head handed to us

Social fabric?

Political mumbo-jumbo