Similar words: clammy, hammer, hammock, hammer at, muhammad, sledgehammer, shimmy, mummy. Meaning: ['hwæmɪ /'w-] n. 1. a serious or devastating setback 2. an evil spell.
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1. He put the whammy on me.
2. Britain's farmers have faced the double whammy of a rising pound and falling agricultural prices.
3. With this government we've had a double whammy of tax increases and benefit cuts.
4. Soften them up, then hit them with the whammy.
5. Anyway, in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett.
6. Farmers have faced the double whammy of a freeze and a drought this year.
7. After the double whammy of rugby in Johannesburg and rowing with Redgrave, though, I more resembled a wizened old man.
8. We're suffering a triple whammy at the moment.
9. This double - whammy drives prices in a direction unfavourable to the customer.
10. Then, the scene of a double whammy - their car broke down again.
11. Yesterday a real double whammy. My boss fired me, and my wife asked for a divorce.
12. Yesterday a real double whammy. My boss fired me and my wife asked a divorce.
13. The government's policy is higher tax and higher interest rates. It's a double whammy.
14. Is he aware that the Labour party will put up both - a double whammy?
15. Economic impudence plus political insensitivity combine to make a Kinnockian double whammy that I will vote Tory to avoid(sentencedict.com/whammy.html), however unenthusiastically.
16. In the political parlance of 1992, I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy.
17. We've each had our hot streaks, I won't deny: the whammy has changed hands many times.
18. He lost his job and then his wife left him away. It was a double whammy.
19. She lost her job and then her husband left her. It was a double whammy.
20. Mary lost her car yesterday and her job today a real double whammy.
21. He lost his job, and his wife left him. It was a double whammy.