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whammy

wa mee

  • n  a serious or devastating setback
  • n  an evil spell
    he put the whammy on me

  • As a result, many employees in the private sector will get hit with a double whammy: while their pensions erode, increasingly they will be hit with cuts in government services and .
  • They say the grackles fell prey to parasites and a sudden dip in temperatures, struck down by a double whammy of bad luck in the bird world.
  • Evil Eye Fleegle, a creation of Cartoonist Al Capp, can deliver a "whammy," or dirty look, so powerful that it can melt steel and shrivel flesh.
News & Articles

  • Yum says KFC's sales decline in China is easing
    Yum Brands says a key sales figure for China dropped 19 percent in May, as the parent company of KFC began to see signs of recovery from the double whammy of a bird flu scare and an earlier controversy ...
    June 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
  • 2 early-morning wrecks block I-26 traffic
    Drivers using Interstate 26 in North Carolina between Fletcher and Saluda got double-whammy traffic hit Tuesday morning. First, a tractor-trailer overturned in the eastbound lanes just before 1 a.m. at mile marker 55 over the Green River Bridge in Henderson County, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation. As a result, both eastbound lanes were closed, according to the NCDOT ...
    June 11, 2013 - WYFF 4 Greenville
  • Yum says China sales fell 19 percent in May
    Yum Brands says a key sales figure in China dropped 19 percent in May, as the parent company of KFC worked to recover from the double whammy of a new strain of bird flu and an earlier controversy over ...
    June 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! Finance
Quotes

  • Bruce Pearl in International Herald Tribune
    I think it's had a lot of impact,Pearl said. "It's been a double whammy for us, because of the line moving back and losing all of our best shooters to graduation. It's been a double hit for the Vols."
  • Rick Adelman in ESPN
    I told them [Monday] they have a double whammy going,Adelman said. "Not only do you have a chance to do something remarkable and get this streak going and keep it going, but also, every time you win, you keep shortening the season and you...
  • Edward Markey in International Herald Tribune
    The double whammy of rising costs and economic uncertainty is hitting local consumers hard,said Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass. "With this increase in funding, hopefully no one in Massachusetts should have to make a heat-or-eat decision this...

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