domino effect

Noun
  1. 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) (synset 111434155)
    domain usage: figure, figure of speech, image, trope - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
    is a type of: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot - a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

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