| 单词 | snowball prize |
| 释义 | > as lemmassnowball prize C3. Used to denote increase by a kind of geometrical progression, as snowball contribution, snowball effect, snowball letter, snowball prize, snowball system, etc. ΚΠ 1897 Westm. Gaz. 8 Apr. 7/2 An anonymous ‘snowball’ contribution has been started. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 28 Jan. 6/1 The scheme of old-age pensions on the snowball system... They offer magnificent terms to any assurer who gets them ten other assurers,..and so on, like the rolling snowball. 1941 I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang xxxii. 251 It will not be the amount to be spent that will be considered, but the snowball effect of the resulting benefits. 1963 Daily Tel. 23 Jan. 20/8 A ‘snowball’ prize played for evening after evening at a bingo club is legal, provided the management gives the prize money. 1979 P. Niesewand Member of Club xviii. 142 Hundreds of families emigrate [from South Africa] every month... Each one has a snowball effect. Other families start thinking: should we leave also? < as lemmas |
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