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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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What does "built snowball of resentment" mean?

The married guys hate you because you're single. The married women hate you because you remind their husbands that they aren't single. The old people hate you because you're young, and the rest just hate you because you aren't Japanese. Oh, yeah, one bald guy hates you because you have hair. For a guy that maintains a low profile, you've built quite a little snowball of resentment.

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In this case, snowball is not the one you throw at somebody, but the one you send down the hill on a day when the snow is sticky, and it becomes larger and larger - without any further input from you. It's like an avalanche, in that it may begin with a very small slide, and eventually become unstoppable. This thing is snowballing!

— Avangi

  • In this case, snowball is not the one you throw at somebody, but the one you send down the hill on a day when the snow is sticky, and it becomes larger and larger - without any further input from you.
  • It's like an avalanche, in that it may begin with a very small slide, and eventually become unstoppable.
  • This thing is snowballing!
  • is a common idiom, meaning that it's picking up momentum on its own (both speed and mass).
  • The original act was innocent enough, but it set off a chain reaction which was out of your control.
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In this case, snowball is not the one you throw at somebody, but the one you send down the hill on a day when the snow is sticky, and it becomes larger and larger - without any further input from you. It's like an avalanche, in that it may begin with a very small slide, and eventually become unstoppable.

This thing is snowballing! is a common idiom, meaning that it's
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