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Oct 18, 2013 · A whammy is never good. Origin 1940s: from the noun wham + -y1; associated from the 1950s with the cartoon strip Li'l Abner, in which the hillbilly Evil-Eye Fleegle could ‘shoot a whammy’ (to put a curse on somebody) by pointing a finger with one eye open, and a ‘double whammy’ with both eyes open. The antonym to a curse would be a ...
No whammy, no whammy, big money, big bucks, stop! The term and its association go hand in hand when you are speaking. One whammy is fine, play on. Double whammy, maybe a little more cautious. Triple whammy, well now you are on your last leg. Quadruple whammy, BUZZZ! you are done. No one will understand quintuple whammy or anything above that ...
May 19, 2020 · whammy n. pl. -mies Slang 1. A supernatural spell for subduing an adversary; a hex: put the whammy on someone. 2. A serious or devastating setback: " The triple whammy: government cuts, declining corporate giving, and less favorable tax laws " (New York Times).
Jun 25, 2024 · double whammy a combination of two usually adverse forces, circumstances, or effects. With the cold weather and the high cost of heating fuel, homeowners were hit with a double whammy this winter. In the OP's case the sentence could perhaps be. A colleague suffered a double whammy after finding the buffers were too small, and they were cached ...
Oct 10, 2018 · Is there a word or phrase when there occurs two sad/traumatic events in tandem; Like Double whammy is when two-fold blow or setback. But I think i cannot use double whammy. Like in this example: Jill's father died in the month of June this year. And now i am hearing this news that his cousin sister passed away yesterday. That a _____ (double ...
@alwayslearning "a triple" is a set of three things, like "a triple whammy", but "triple" is a multiplier, like "three times the flow". – Weather Vane Commented Nov 13, 2017 at 21:01
Aug 22, 2022 · I'm looking for a phrase that means the same thing as "best of both worlds", except isn't so overused.
Dec 1, 2019 · 'The old one-two' is still a well known phrase, and there is the more modern 'double whammy'. The modern emphasiser / interjection 'bom-bom' is similar in most respects, but hasn't the same distribution (*'bom-bom in the middle').
Aug 6, 2018 · Geza Kerecsenyi. 211 3 12. 1. Logically you are right, but idioms (by definition) do not employ language logically. And it is a well-established idiom to say something is "all but useless/hopeless/lost etc". And it means that it is so bad it is almost that thing. – WS2. Aug 6, 2018 at 10:35. So logically it would mean that everything bad had ...
1. Yes, sometimes you do (and must) use between for more than two things alone. In these places, you cannot swap in among, or it will sound wrong. For example, between can be used with several points of geography: My territory lies between Denver, Dallas, and Chicago. and not. My territory lies *among Denver, Dallas, and Chicago.
