whammy / ˈʰwæm i, ˈwæm i /

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whammy 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural wham·mies.Informal.

  1. the evil eye; jinx.
  2. bad luck or misfortune.
  3. a devastating blow, setback, or catastrophe: The drought and the high price of fertilizer are a double whammy to farmers.

whammy 近义词

n. 名词 noun

spell

更多whammy例句

  1. In a one-two punch, a malaria vaccine in development pairs a shot of the live parasite that causes the disease with a whammy of infection-fighting drugs to immediately quell it.
  2. Nepal is facing a double whammy of disastrous infection rates and depleting vaccine stocks.
  3. California’s kelp forests, which provide a rich habitat for marine organisms, got hit by a double whammy of ecological disasters in the past decade, says UC Santa Cruz ecologist Mark Carr.
  4. This week, I was dealing with the double whammy of having just returned home after some time away to a mostly empty fridge.
  5. I love being able to sing for my job and it’s my passion too, so it’s a double whammy.
  6. Who can forget in 2012 the double whammy of GOP Senate candidates comments about rape?
  7. “The double whammy of those two set me on a course of thinking about issues I had never done before,” Sherwood told the Times.
  8. For stores like Walmart, which sells groceries and other goods to the same customers, the food-stamp cut will be a double-whammy.
  9. Why new cuts will be a double whammy for Bentonville—and anyone with a mutual fund.
  10. This “double whammy” of predation and competition enables jellyfish to cripple a food chain by essentially nibbling at its ankles.
  11. This time they ain't none of them screwy Venusians to put the whammy on him, and he's doing okay.