double whammy

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

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

“The timing couldn’t be worse. It will make for a double whammy for Southern California,” said Sung Won Sohn, professor of finance and economics at Loyola Marymount University.

It was like a double whammy for me because I was also dealing with a personal problem.

There would be hard days ahead, Alvarado warned, with the double whammy of a new president hostile to poor immigrants from Latin America, along with the immense task of rebuilding from the Eaton and Palisades fires.