Morris Gleitzman

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

English Author

Marie Osmond

What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.

American Musician

Kirk Cousins

Life is about balance. You don't want to live out of whack over here or out of whack over here. I want to win and be well compensated, and I think there's a balance to find. It doesn't have to be one extreme or the other.

American Athlete

Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

British Statesman

Guillermo del Toro

I'm fortunate enough that my personal life falls into whack with my professional life. My kids love visiting the sets; they love the monsters.

Mexican Director

Charles R. Swindoll

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

American Clergyman

Kanye West

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

American Rapper

Rush Limbaugh

When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.

American Entertainer

Sam Graves

Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.

American Politician

Gok Wan

The U.K. perception of beauty is totally out of whack.

British Author

Used to describe a powerful physical action, often involving hands or tools.

Physical Force

Indicates a rapid and sometimes unexpected hit or contact.

Sudden Impact

Refers to putting maximum effort into the hitting action.

Full Effort

Expresses willingness to attempt something, often casually.

Give It a Try

Used when someone is allowed to attempt or participate in something.

Opportunity

Functions as an adverb expressing a high degree of emotion or state.

Extremely

A non-formal term often used humorously to describe someone's behavior.

Informal Insult

Slang in gangster movies or crime literature; not appropriate for formal situations.

Crime Slang

Despite its casual sound, it refers to something very serious: killing.

Seriousness

 they invest a great deal of time with them. Caring for them while they still have to go about their daily duties. So you'll see a mother holding an infant like this with one hand, while she's grabbing grass with the other one. It's always amusing when she kind of crosses wires a little bit and is whacking her infant in the head while she's putting grass into her mouth.

The Fascinating Lives of...

 tried painting a white room at a zoo and the chimp just sat by the camera opening uh you know so i couldn't really put my camera in there because you just whack so i still don't have a good picture of an adult chimp that's kind of my white whale i guess there's something so delightful about the one that's the most

Saving the Creepy...

 and stressing them out by avoiding these areas during important feeding periods. Finally, the maps can be used to predict the effects of climate change, where shifting annual temperatures will alter the rate of plant growth, throwing the bears' precise foraging schedule out of whack. This provides less food

Tracking grizzly bears...

 but just being siphoned out in terms of buying back your own shares, which boosts stock options, which is, in fact, the way that many executives are getting paid. And, you know, some share buybacks is absolutely fine, but this system is completely out of whack. These numbers that I'm showing you here

What is economic value,...

 well, then it might not be safe if you got whacked by a heavy car, and it would cost a lot more to make, because the only way we know how to make cars much lighter was to use expensive light metals like aluminum and magnesium. But these objections are now vanishing through advances in materials.

Amory Lovins: We must...

 and to really whack us -- and their own journalists -- with this bludgeon of fake news. To what extent is what happened, though, in part, just an unintended consequence, that the traditional media that you worked in had this curation-mediation role, where certain norms were observed,

How to seek truth in the...

 out of whack and one of those behaviors is empathy empathy and compassion I mean think about it you we watch these things unfold on television and and we hurt for the people who lose their town or they lose their to their city or their own property and we want to do something

The dark side of...

 So here's what they found on Imagine you take a bell, and you whack the bell with a hammer. What happens? It rings. But if you wait, that ringing fades and fades and fades until you don't notice it anymore. Now, that early universe was incredibly dense,

Allan Adams: The...

 The sheer size of this forearm. It's thick right from the forearm all the way down to the paw. So even without claws, you've got this huge paw pad that can give you a whack. Add to that, four razor-sharp claws, huge fangs,

Attacked by a Lion? PIPE...

 it's just coming around and threw it over it like it's not there papa knack has a split-second whacked he jumps into a chamber to the side which saves his life raging water is just inches away you

Whack

A heavy or hard hit.

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To hit something or someone with a lot of force.

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An attempt or try.

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To a great extent.

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A crazy or eccentric person.

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Usage tips

To murder someone, especially by organized crime.

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Usage tips

Physical Force

Sudden Impact

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