"Double whammy" is a phrase used to describe a situation when someone is facing two negative or difficult things happening at the same time, making the impact stronger or worse than facing just one.
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I'm sorry to say that I haven't researched this yet, but it does seem like a high carbohydrate / high sugar diet on the way towards type 2 diabetes would be a continuous
double whammy for the whole pancreas, including the beta cells.
It actually made his PFA and FWA Player of the Year
double whammy in 1999 all the more impressive considering he was playing for Tottenham where mid-table mediocrity was the norm.
You'll get a nice
double whammy on the buns and calves, plus add a little bonus core workout.
Using those savings to increase your investment contributions can provide a nice
double whammy as well.
Song H; Wignall PB; Chu D; Tong J; Sun Y; Song H; He W; Tian L (2014) Anoxia / high temperature
double whammy during the Permian - Triassic marine crisis and its aftermath, Scientific Reports, 4,.
With the network beset with problems at the same time as inflation - busting fare rises come into force, shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers said passengers were on the «end of a
real double whammy».
It seems smartphones offer a sleep -
busting double whammy: both keeping the brain psychologically engaged and emitting «blue light» that inhibits our bodies» ability to relax into sleep.
The price gap between North American crude and world prices is a new and unfamiliar dynamic in international oil markets, and represents a «
double whammy discount» for Western Canadian producers, as Casey puts it.
It would be hard to cut a guy who took you to the Superbowl, plus the immediate massive expectations that would put on Mahomes would be a
tough double whammy to handle.
Krook asserted that a «toxic agent» — which he said later was a corticosteroid — was injected into Prairie Bayou's left fetlock joint and ate away at a vital ligament until it broke, the kind of
double whammy Krook and Maylin blame for most breakdowns.
Unfortunately, due to a bum ankle and the lack of availability of a Rascal electric scooter, Lisa has to miss out on the fun (and a
total double whammy is that it is also her birthday!!)
John Major's upturned soapbox,
double whammy poster campaigns and even Saatchi - slick party political broadcasts now seem antiquated in a world of blogging, tweeting, crowdsourcing and poking.
Monsanto's insistence that its
elegant double whammy is far more ecologically benign than the products it replaces has done little to put fears about genetically modified crops to rest.
In a statement last week, NERC announced that the
cruel double whammy, its own doing, has forced it to save $ 28 million this year, although NERC has asked the government to contribute $ 8.5 million to lessen the blow.
Lead researchers Eric Reiman and Pierre Tariot of the Banner Alzheimer's Institute in Phoenix plan to give a yet - to - be identified anti-amyloid drug, or placebo, to 650 people who carry two copies of the APOE4 gene — a
genetic double whammy that confers a 10-fold increased risk of developing Alzheimer's late in life.
For an extra
avocado double whammy, try a hydrating face mask with mashed up avocado, honey and lemon, and feel your skin soak in the smooth, silky oils that are good enough to eat.
Seems like it's become the annual trip we take and since his parents have now retired full time up here, it's a
great double whammy to get in some beach time and visit with the in - laws.
The Mother: «Besides Zhang Yimou's
double whammy Hero and House of Flying Daggers, there was another important 2004 dual American release: Roger Michell's The Mother and Enduring Love, two films that questioned societal mores.
After the oh - so -
average double whammy of Layer Cake and Stardust, director Matthew Vaughn has really hit his stride here.
Ingredients are lobbed into the mix with abandon so we have the heart -
tugging double whammy of a movie cancer death and a movie emergency birth in immediate succession.
Double whammy However, the shockwaves from cancellation of the # 55bn Building Schools for the Future programme in 2010 are still being felt.
«The
severe double whammy of the recession and the structural shift to the Internet has created an urgency that has rightly focused attention on these devices», The FT's CEO told the paper.
This could be called the «
Double Whammy Upgrade» deal, and it should appeal to many customers who already have a fish tank.
Even more sadly the very same issues that caused it to be disappointing have also rendered it a bad game in the eyes of many, the
ultimate double whammy of bitter unhappiness for gamers around the globe.
However, out with the dreaded microtransaction and loot
box double whammy that often invades our games; Nintendo has had a wonderful ability to prolong the games that you've bought in recent years with little to no fanfare or praise from the wider community.
Here we go again in the
annual double whammy of rampant oligarchical consumerism, blue - chip wonders and dumb artefacts, specially commissioned films, a rolling season of talks, and a cast of wandering celebs, walking wallets and exhausted gallerists.
In a world suffering from briskly advancing population growth, skyrocketing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and consequential Global Warming, the formation of Terra Preta anew (Terra Preta Nova) could provide the largest
signifiicant double whammy to these problems.