Object lesson?

Zero-hour contract

Local democracy bites the dust

Read the tea leaf?

Gaming the system

Good Samaritan

Earn your keep?

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Peer review

Stopped in her tracks?

Herculean proportions?

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Con artist?

Stop on a dime?

In the doghouse?

In the cross hairs?

Going back to the drawing board?

Right side of history?

We just got our head handed to us

Rule of thumb?

Pants are on fire

Theater of the absurd?

Career break?

Sacrificial lamb

At the water’s edge?

Social fabric?

Children are not cookie cutters

Gold dust

A bucket list goal?

Swan song?