2008年高考英语听力（山东卷）

Toast of the town?

Soul searching

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

Spitball some ideas?

Local democracy bites the dust

War chest?

Gold dust

In the nosebleeds

Theater of the absurd?

Moments that take our breath away

Is Donald Trump a choke artist?

Old saw?

Coming home to roost?

Tall poppy

Sacrificial lamb

On a wing and a prayer

Team player?

Peer review

Read the tea leaf?

Rule of thumb?

Close to the bone

扒一扒英语中箴言的内涵

What is an entrenched issue?

Sisyphean task

Political mumbo-jumbo

Herculean proportions?

Stopped in her tracks?

Right side of history?

Con artist?

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