snowball into (something)
snowball into (something)
To develop quickly and progressively into something bigger, more complex, more difficult, more dangerous, etc. This whole situation could snowball into a national scandal if the press gets wind of it. It started out as an idea for a short story, but I just kept adding details and characters and plot twists to it until it snowballed into a full-blown novel.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
snowball into something
Fig. [for something] to become larger or more serious by growing like a snowball being rolled. This whole problem is snowballing into a crisis very rapidly. The argument soon snowballed into a full-blown riot.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- snowball into
- be another matter
- be another thing
- be another/a different matter
- add fuel to the fire/flames, to
- (Someone or something) called, they want their (something) back!
- be (one's) man/woman
- a bad apple spoils the (whole) barrel
- one rotten apple spoils the (whole) bushel
- rotten apple spoils the barrel