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double whammy

[ duhb-uhl wam-ee, hwam-ee ]

noun

Informal.
  1. two devastating problems, setbacks, or catastrophes:

    The double whammy of insomnia and sleep apnea can make a night's rest almost impossible.

  2. any doubled quantity or set of two:

    Visiting the sandwich shop and the ice cream shop makes a delightful savory-sweet double whammy for lunch.



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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of double whammy1

First recorded in 1935–40
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Employers will also pay an increased amount of National Insurance from April, which Mr Astley described as a "double whammy".

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A double whammy — the Palisades and Eaton fires — took both the Westside Waldorf School, within sight of where Sunset Boulevard intersects with Pacific Coast Highway, and its Altadena K-8 campus, at 209 E. Mariposa St. The Palisades campus had taken a lease and planned its move to the Sunset Boulevard site in 2005 and relocated there some time later.

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"We also found that children's social and emotional development has a big impact on their academic results so it's been a double whammy and we predict that GCSEs won't recover for a decade."

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That means Chinese imports will be subject to a double whammy of new duties and a newly imposed tariff.

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Coram's managing director Ellen Broome said families faced "a double whammy of above inflation price rises and dramatic drops in availability".

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