英和和英

名詞

one-two punch (plural one-two punches)

1. (boxing) A combination of two punches, one from each hand, thrown in rapid succession.
2. (by extension) A rapid sequence or combination of two things that has a quick or powerful effect.
   • 2007 November, Elizabeth Drake, “Combine and conquer: Use these winning food pairings to protect your health”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 124:

     Fish + Broccoli
     The benefit: You can sock it to cancer with this one-two punch.

   • 2012 March 21, Dwight Crow, “'Everything Is Automated': How Web Start-Ups Attack the Offline Economy”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 21 April 2013:

     Products are increasingly differentiated by the one-two punch of crowd-sourced review and easy factual comparison.

   • 2016 July 6, Sierra Petersen, quotee, “Dinosaurs killed off by ‘one-two punch’ of climate change and asteroid strike – study”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 9 August 2022:

     “We find that the end-Cretaceous mass extinction was caused by a combination of the volcanism and asteroid impact, delivering a theoretical ‘one-two punch’,” said study co-author Sierra Petersen of the University of Michigan, using boxing terminology.

   • 2025 May 10, “WeightWatchers blames diet drugs and social media for Chapter 11 bankruptcy”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13:

     A one-two punch of diet drugs and TikTok undermined one of the most trusted brands in fat loss, lawyers for WeightWatchers told a US bankruptcy judge, as the bankrupt company seeks to reorganise into a slimmer version of itself.