Cook up this metaphor: mud with sour and bitter sauce, hung on the clothesline

Jason D. Greenblatt, Donald Trump’s lawyer, sends a threatening letter to Trump’s ghostwriter.

 

Source: Jane Mayer, “Donald Trump Threatens the Ghostwriter of ‘The Art of the Deal,'” The New Yorker 20 July 2016. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trump-threatens-the-ghostwriter-of-the-art-of-the-deal