(informal)an event with a powerful and unpleasant effect; a blow (非正式)具有负面影响的大事;剧烈的打击。 参见 double whammy the third whammy was the degradation of the financial system. 第三件坏事是金融体系的退化。 ■(chiefly US)an evil or unlucky influence (主美)不祥之物;诅咒 I've come to put the whammy on them. 我给他们降了咒。
语源
1940s: from the noun wham + -y; associated from the 1950s with the cartoon strip Li'l Abner, in which the hillbilly Evil-Eye Fleegle could ‘shoot a whammy’ (to put a curse on somebody) by pointing a finger with one eye open, and a 'double whammy' with both eyes open