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snowball effect

idiom

An accelerating growth of magnitude, including fame, fortune, importance, or danger.


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Related idioms2entries
  1. 01

    or words to that effect

    used to indicate a paraphrase or the chance of an error in the details of reported speech.

  2. 02

    snowball in hell

    Something that is doomed.

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