Sacrificial lamb

On a wing and a prayer

Children are not cookie cutters

Gaming the system

Earn your keep?

High wire act

Right side of history?

Place to blow off some steam?

Tall poppy

In the doghouse?

Con artist?

At the water’s edge?

Read the tea leaf?

A bucket list goal?

Soul searching

Rule of thumb?

Golden rule?

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We just got our head handed to us

Theater of the absurd?

Herculean proportions?

Good Samaritan

Close to the bone

Swan song?

Political mumbo-jumbo

Peer review

Social fabric?

Hit the hay?

Team player?

Going back to the drawing board?