Children are not cookie cutters

Team player?

Theater of the absurd?

Going back to the drawing board?

Bell cow?

In the doghouse?

Local democracy bites the dust

At the water’s edge?

Old saw?

We just got our head handed to us

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Hit the hay?

Political mumbo-jumbo

Stop on a dime?

Place to blow off some steam?

Zero-hour contract

Gaming the system

In the nosebleeds

In the cross hairs?

Stopped in her tracks?

High wire act

Tall poppy

Close to the bone

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

Golden rule?

Gold dust

Peer review

Right side of history?

Social fabric?

Rule of thumb?