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below the belt |
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below the belt not fair. That new advertisement really hits below the belt. Usage notes: often used with hit, as in the example Etymology: based on the idea of hitting someone below the belt in boxing, which is against the rules |
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One afternoon, after twenty minutes of desperate efforts to annihilate each other according to set rules that did not permit kicking, striking below the belt, nor hitting when one was down, Cheese-Face, panting for breath and reeling, offered to call it quits. |
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below the belt
