snowball effect

Etymology
By analogy with the way that a growing snowball collects snow faster and faster as it is rolled along.

Noun

 * 1) An accelerating growth of magnitude, including fame, fortune, importance, or danger.
 * The success of these women has had the snowball effect of bringing more and more women into the sport over the past few years.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: sneeubaleffek
 * Arabic: تأثير كرة الثلج
 * Azerbaijani: qartopu effekti
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 雪球效應
 * Danish: sneboldeffekt
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: თოვლის გუნდის ეფექტი
 * German: Schneeballeffekt
 * Hebrew: אפקט כדור השלג
 * Persian: اثر گلوله برفی
 * Polish: efekt kuli śnieżnej
 * Portuguese: efeito bola de neve
 * Russian: эффе́кт сне́жного ко́ма
 * Swedish: snöbollseffekt
 * Turkish: