| 词汇 | double/triple whammy |
| 释义 | double/triple whammydouble/triple whammy informal two 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。 Examples from the Corpus 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 vote Tory 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. → double/triple whammy at whammy(1) |
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