throwaway line
基本解释
- 脱口而出的话
- 随口附加之言
- 即兴台词
英汉例句
- The president gave a populist you-can-have-it-all speech with only a throwaway line about his willingness to tweak Medicare and Medicaid.
FORBES: SOTU Innovative, Aspirational, Less Partisan - But Math Doesn't Work - So was his playing down of the Taliban threat a foolish throwaway line, which reflected the brigadier's personal view rather than the consensus among the British military?
ECONOMIST: The marine commander who was too honest for his own good - It was not much more than a throwaway line in the midst of the expansive government-led agenda which President Obama laid out in his fourth State of the Union address.
FORBES: Obama's SOTU and What Government Shouldn't Do