domino effect

Noun

Meaning

the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall)

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Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale. Amber Tamblyn

If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect. Emma Watson

I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that. Elizabeth Pena

Parents are the barometers of emotions for children and it has a domino effect. Cecelia Ahern

We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world. Dan Hawkins

There's a domino effect with certain things you say. Johnny Vegas

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