one-two punch

English edit

one-two punch (plural one-two punches)

(boxing) A combination of two punches, one from each hand, thrown in rapid succession.
(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^[1]:
  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^[2]:
  “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.