Meaning:
Events have momentum and build upon each other
Examples:
- I didn't know it would have a snowball effect.
- But it's a snowball effect.
- You know, the initial screenings, everything, it's like a snowball effect.
- So here is why we say it is a snowball effect.
- Once the first barricade was put up, the rest followed in a snowball effect.
- Temporary, because I am convinced that once women become more visible in politics, this will have a snowball effect.
- There should be a snowball effect, a positive feedback, such that the more names we have, the more we get.
- Their membership will once again, I believe, have a snowball effect and enable us to convince all the Member States to ratify this Convention.
- Anyway, the success of the euro will certainly have a snowball effect, and contrary to Gresham's law, good money will no doubt drive out bad.
- It will not take much to start a snowball effect that could lead to an avalanche of people stepping forward, prepared to make sure that the truth cannot be suppressed any longer.