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Перевод: snowball

[существительное]
снежок ; снежный ком;
[глагол]
играть в снежки; расти как снежный ком

Тезаурус:

1. Maintaining that sum of money (which 20 years ago was the threshold of affluence) is like trying to keep a snowball in your pocket by waiting until winter comes.
2. Election "92: Fund holding by GPs "will snowball"
3. Even Americans round the table, who didn't give him a snowball in hell's chance of getting approval to his plan, had to admit that he was still in there, fighting like a demon for a lost cause.
4. He said: "It means fund holding will snowball to the point where all GPs will be fund holders by the time of the next general election."
5. Mick Ronson: "We toured the States followed by Japan, and by the time we came back to England, it was beginning to really snowball.
6. The growth of the Theatre Collection has been in some way analogous to that of the proverbial snowball, for as its reputation has increased so too has the number of donations and bequests in the form of private collections, both large and small.
7. Incidents such as five year olds showing "bottoms" to each other in the playground or playhouse comer can, unless prompt action is taken, snowball into reports of almost sex orgy proportion rather than remaining in the league of innocent childish curiosity.
8. I thought I'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait, to get a few shots together for my portfolio, and then, suddenly, this snowball seemed to start rolling
9. "I told 'em about you an' the money lender but I didn't know they were gooin' to snowball yer," she said, pulling me to my feet.
10. From then on the snowball gathered momentum until on 24th November, the entire Politburo resigned, to be followed by the collapse of its still communist-dominated replacement government on 7th December.
11. But then it seemed to snowball from "Hunky Dory" into "Ziggy Stardust" because after playing one or two gigs as an acoustic outfit, it seemed to be natural to take it that step further - to add the bass and add the drums and make it bigger and better - more of a show of it - and so it evolved into "Ziggy Stardust".
12. It is hoped that the idea will snowball around the world.
13. Sam, having introduced the snowball, saw it start rolling without any more help from him.