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below the belt
idiom informal
If a remark is below the belt, it is very insulting and unfair.暗箭伤人的;不公正的
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
acerbic
acerbically
acerbity
acidly
anti-cruelty
cruel
cruelly
cruelty
cruelty to someone/something
cutthroat
meanness
mental cruelty
merciless
mercilessly
mordant
trenchant
trenchantly
uncharitable
uncharitably
unchristian
If my hair was as simple a matter as yours—" this hit at his unprotected pate seemed rather a blow below the belt—"there would be no difficulty.
It was mean of Rosalind to hit below the belt like that, when she knew that she was safe.
The press inspired by Senator Winter had begun to strike below the belt.
We say a person has "hit below the belt" if we think he has done or said something unfair in an argument or quarrel.
Willie has handed me several little blows below the belt that I don't like.
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