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whammy
[ wam-ee, hwam-ee ]
noun
- a devastating blow, setback, or catastrophe:
The drought and the high price of fertilizer are a double whammy to farmers.
The big whammy will be the coming update, which could make our software nonfunctional.
- bad luck or misfortune.
- Often the wham路my. the evil eye; jinx.
whammy
/ 藞飞忙尘瑟 /
noun
- something which has great, often negative, impact
the double whammy of high interest rates and low wage increases
- an evil spell or curse
she was convinced he had put the whammy on her
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of whammy1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
Employers will also pay an increased amount of National Insurance from April, which Mr Astley described as a "double whammy".
"We also found that children's social and emotional development has a big impact on their academic results so it's been a double whammy and we predict that GCSEs won't recover for a decade."
"Because it's like a kind of a triple whammy; the cost of the electricity and gas, the cost the petrol is up as well therefore the delivery of any food that you eat is up."
That means Chinese imports will be subject to a double whammy of new duties and a newly imposed tariff.
鈥淭he timing couldn鈥檛 be worse. It will make for a double whammy for Southern California,鈥 said Sung Won Sohn, professor of finance and economics at Loyola Marymount University.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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