Alexandra Fuller

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

English Author

Dimebag Darrell

My whammy system is set up so I can yank the bar up as well as do dive-bombs with it. This means that if I accidentally push down on the bridge with my palm, my strings go sharp and sound out of tune. I make sure this never happens by never resting my hand on the bridge when muting. I always do my muting just in front of the bridge.

American Musician

Richard Corliss

For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early years, we never took the show's excellence for granted, agreeing that someday we'd look back on the double whammy of 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report' as the golden age of TV's singeing singing satire.

American Writer

Jai Courtney

I kind of missed out on those years when a lot of my friends did big backpacking trips around Europe and that sort of thing. So to be able to travel and see parts of the world on the job is kind of a double whammy.

Australian Actor

Laurie Colwin

One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

American Author

Maxine Peake

In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

English Actress

Victoria Wood

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

British Comedian

Tony Cardenas

I love chocolate, and I love ice cream. That's a double whammy there. I constantly have to check myself and say, 'I've already had dessert today.

American Politician

Bar Paly

I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.

Israeli Model

Sheila Hancock

Christmas Eve is my wedding anniversary so it is a double whammy.

Whammy often implies a surprising and negative effect that is difficult to deal with.

Negative Implications

A 'double' or 'triple whammy' means multiple negative impacts are felt at once.

Combination Hit

'Whammy' is informal and often used in spoken language or casual writing.

Colloquial Use

The term originates from the idea of supernatural forces causing bad luck.

Supernatural Origin

While it can sound serious, 'whammy' is often used lightly or playfully.

Casual Expression

In phrases like 'put a whammy on,' 'whammy' behaves like an idiom meaning to cause bad luck.

Idiomatic Expressions

 a disease slammed agave crops a double whammy of fungus and bacteria and just like he had warned it was the big one and i swear jacob it was not me i didn't put it in there it wasn't me right but then they reach out and they say oh my god what was that idea about the bats and the flowers

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