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Technical Difficulty
FROM THE MEDICAL OFFICE where I was a secretary, I called the hospital X-ray department to get a patient's test results. The technician began to read a lengthy, detailed report.
With the doctor standing beside me, anxious for his patient's diagnosis, I interrupted the technician and said,"Please, just give me the bottom line."
She cheerfully obliged by reading,"Thank you for referring your patient."
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I think the secret of the above story is in the ITAlIC sentences.
Could you tell me the secret? Thanks.
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Now I got it.
It's kind of pun, right?
The secretary want the technician to get to a quick conclusion, I mean, a main point quickly, but the technician took what she said litarally.
So the techinician read the last line, or the bottom line, right?
Thanks all of you^^.
(I also attached the meaning and the example sentences of the bottom line.)
The bottom line means 'the main fact about a situation, that must be accepted and cannot be changed or avoided.'
eg 1. Most people want to work in a place where they feel valued. That's the bottom line.
eg 2. The bottom line is, he's gone and he's not coming back.