VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Set the ball rolling

Meaning:

start something, especially a conversation or a social event.

Examples:

  • It is a good programme: let us set the ball rolling.
  • Perhaps we can set the ball rolling today.
  • Let us really set the ball rolling and vote in favour of this report.
  • That set the ball rolling.
  • The European Parliament has already embarked on internal work to set the ball rolling.
  • They set the ball rolling.
  • For the time being, I'll set the ball rolling, and I'll ask you for a 10,000-euro advance.
  • To set the ball rolling, the Commission should advertise the agreed conditions for an initiative when they are agreed.
  • Mr President, Commissioner Schreyer, in discussing the budget for 2005, we have, of course, merely set the ball rolling.
  • Is it necessary to give further attention to this during the IGC or will the Treaties inevitably set the ball rolling?

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