Most people agreed that the newspaper was hitting below the belt when it tried to discredit the cabinet minister by detailing some of her childhood misdeeds. 大多数人一致认为,如果报纸试图用该内阁大臣孩提时的某些不端行为使她信誉扫地的话,那么报纸就是玩弄卑鄙手段了。
I thought his remarks were quite below the belt. 我觉得他的话十分尖酸刻毒。