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triple threat
noun
- an expert in three different fields or in three different skills in the same field.
- Football. a back who is proficient at running, passing, and punting:
The triple threat is a rare find for coaches.
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of triple threat1
Idioms and Phrases
A person who is adept in three areas, as in She's a triple threat on the editorial staff—she can edit, write, and design pages . This term comes from football, where it signifies a player who is good at running, passing, and kicking. [c. 1920] Also see hat trick .Example Sentences
There’s no one like this kewpie triple threat, and even at half-mast she was able to summon some of the old magic.
James Sweeney’s “Twinless†is one of a number of projects — also including Katarina Zhu’s “Bunnylovr,†Grace Glowicki’s “Dead Lover,†Eva Victor’s “Sorry, Baby†and Cooper Raiff’s “Hal & Harper†— that feature writer-director-stars, a triple threat that’s been a Sundance staple going to back to Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s 1990 “Chameleon Street†and Kevin Smith’s “Clerks†from 1994.
These trees are a triple threat, said Los Angeles County Arboretum arborist Frank McDonough: beautiful bloomers in late summer with clouds of frilly flowers in purples, pinks, fuchsia and white; dramatic red and gold leaves in the fall; and sculptural bark that makes the bare tree lovely in winter.
Since 2021, I have loved competing and judging on a number of Food Network shows like "Tournament of Champions," "Guy’s Grocery Games," "Bobby’s Triple Threat" and more.
That something more explodes in musical numbers like "Dancing Through Life" where the triple threat flies off walls and dances on books, charming Glinda and Shiz University's students — well, except the notoriously hard-to-crack Elphaba.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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