Quote
1. Quote - Listen to the quote and guess what the slang means.
”...and everything started to snowball after that.”
Mischa Barton, in an interview with getlippy.com in response to a question about the media obsession with her first season on The O.C.
Definition
1. Definition - Study the definition.
get larger, bigger, worse
2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.
Sometimes when a situation or problem gets bigger and bigger as we go along, we see more of the situation or problem being added to, we can get the image of a snowball rolling across the ground. As it goes along, it picks up more and more snow which makes the snowball get larger, like our situation or problem.
Examples
1. Examples - Hear some example sentences.
“You know, it was a small issue to begin with, but it has snowballed into a much larger problem!”