whammy in English

noun
1
an event with a powerful and unpleasant effect; a blow.
the third whammy was the degradation of the financial system

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1. He put the whammy on me.

2. We're suffering a triple whammy at the moment.

3. Corny and cheesy, the romantic double whammy

4. Soften them up, then hit them with the whammy.

5. This double - whammy drives prices in a direction unfavourable to the customer.

6. With this government we've had a double whammy of tax increases and benefit cuts.

7. He lost his job, and his wife left him. It was a double whammy.

8. Britain's farmers have faced the double whammy of a rising pound and falling agricultural prices.

9. Farmers have faced the double whammy of a freeze and a drought this year.

10. Mary lost her car yesterday and her job today a real double whammy.

11. She lost her job and then her husband left her. It was a double whammy.

12. Yesterday a real double whammy. My boss fired me and my wife asked a divorce.

13. Women experience the double whammy of ageism and sexism, so we experience aging differently.

14. Is he aware that the Labour party will put up both - a double whammy?

15. The government's policy is higher tax and higher interest rates. It's a double whammy.

16. He lost his job and then his wife left him away. It was a double whammy.

17. We've each had our hot streaks, I won't deny: the whammy has changed hands many times.

18. Yesterday a real double whammy. My boss fired me, and my wife asked for a divorce.

19. Anyway, in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett.

20. 15 Anyway, in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett.

21. Economic impudence plus political insensitivity combine to make a Kinnockian double whammy that I will vote Tory to avoid, however unenthusiastically.

22. 11 In the political parlance of 19 I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy.

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24. As Railways lost freight share to roads , it was caught in a double whammy of falling revenue growth and steep rise in costs .

25. In the political parlance of 19 I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy.

26. Vuorinen's solo techniques usually include alternate picking, tapping, sliding, legato, and minor to extreme whammy bar use; he also employs sweep picking, although very rarely.

27. And you get a double whammy: you get all these calories that don't fill you up because you've removed the fiber, and they get absorbed quickly so your blood sugar zooms up.

28. (synonym) beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, Anathemise, imprecate, maledict (antonym) bless (hypernym) raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth (derivation) hex, jinx, whammy 4

29. (synonym) beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, Anathemise, imprecate, maledict (antonym) bless (hypernym) raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth (derivation) hex, jinx, whammy 4