wham-bang

wham-bang

Particularly impressive, exciting, or intense. The fireworks display was unlike anything I'd seen before, a real wham-bang spectacle! A bunch of us are heading up to my uncle's cabin in the mountains for a wham-bang weekend of partying.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

wham-bang

(ˈʍæmˈbæŋ)
mod. boisterous. We had a really wham-bang time at your party.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • be bang on
  • go over with a bang
  • go with a bang
  • bang around
  • go out with a bang
  • bang goes
  • bang goes (something)!
  • bang goes something
  • go bang
  • smack-bang on (something)
References in periodicals archive
And then comes its wham-bang 'Definition of Terms.' It defines lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders and conflates them with HIV, AIDS, HIV-positive, HIV testing, and HIV transmission.
Rather, it's a wham-bang of 57 playlets that last from a few seconds to a couple of minutes.
As an adult, he swapped his allegiances to Rudy Wiebe, a Canadian Mennonite author, with such wham-bang observances as the ethics of knowing, encountering Mennonite alterity, representing the First Nations in encounters with totality of knowledge, knowledge of the self (people) and the space (the prairie), where the north is in the alterity of space, the dissolution of the self, knowledge while being in the north, and space and the limits of self- knowledge.
Wham-bang pedigree: Steven Soderbergh, Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, a Cannes slot
Ex-marine Hardy is pumped-up and angry, stomping into each fight with the intention of getting it over very quickly with a wham-bang attack.
It's a wham-bang evening with seven fights of three rounds that each last three minutes.
Never a man noted for his restraint, when it comes to big wham-bang TV events anyway, Russell T Davies has pulled out all the stops with this new series of his sexy sci-fi drama.
From then on the film becomes a wham-bang chase movie with the pair arriving in a futuristic Los Angeles with the police and the controllers of the secret underworld all on their tail.
Then move to something dramatic, like Alley's Feast of Ashes, finishing with a wham-bang, exemplified by the pop appeal of Arpino's signature rock ballet Trinity.
The use of a stock, wham-bang formula (Introduction--A--[A.sub.1] [left hand zooms over the keyboard]--B or perhaps a C [tumultuous climax a la Rachmaninoff]--A--extended coda) becomes predictable.
If you feel you couldn't possibly ruin a friend's or family member's wedding with the in-church speech, don't forget that you can still offer a wham-bang of a toast at the reception.
But the 24-carat, wham-bang, ding-dong discovery was David O'Hara, as the morose, stubborn and stubbly sidekick DS Gerry Rankine, the most original, off-the-beat crime buster since Kojak.
Interestingly, in a film that is over flowing with wham-bang! stunts, it is the comedic moments that are most appealing.
A wham-bang 12-minute action prologue both clears the palette of residual series expectations and sets the table for the kind of excitement that's amply in store.
An undemanding slice of wham-bang action from director Joel Schumacher.