This witticism reduced bot of them to helpless laughter .
这句俏皮话让他俩不由自主地大笑起来。
Truncated witticism is a type of folk adage .
歇后语是俗语的一种。
One side of today 's political spectrum looks upon it with suspicion and distrust , echoing samuel johnson 's witticism that " patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel . "