1double/triple whammy informaltwo or three unpleasant things that happen at or around the same time and cause problems or difficulties for someone or for people in general 双重/三重倒霉事
The government’s policy is higher tax and higher interest rates. It’s a double whammy.
政府的政策是高税收和高利率,这真是双重打击。
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double/triple whammy• Is he aware that the Labour party will put up both - a double whammy?• In the political parlance of 1992, I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy.• Economic impudence plus political insensitivity combine to make a Kinnockian double whammy that I will voteTory to avoid, however unenthusiastically.• Anyway, in a showbizdouble whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett.• After the double whammy of rugby in Johannesburg and rowing with Redgrave, though, I more resembled a wizened old man.
2.put the whammy on somebody informalAmerican EnglishAmE to use magic to make someone have badluck 用魔力使某人倒霉
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whammy• Is he aware that the Labour party will put up both - a doublewhammy?• In the political parlance of 1992, I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy.• Economic impudence plus political insensitivity combine to make a Kinnockian double whammy that I will voteTory to avoid, however unenthusiastically.• Anyway, in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett.• After the double whammy of rugby in Johannesburg and rowing with Redgrave, though, I more resembled a wizened old man.• We've each had our hotstreaks, I won't deny: the whammy has changed hands many times.• Soften them up, then hit them with the whammy.