雪崩現象

なだれげんしょう【雪崩現象】

a precipitous rush 《to militarism》; a stampede; a landslide.

●雪崩現象が起きる a stampede [landslide] occurs

・党内の勢力図に雪崩現象が起きたようだ. There appears to have been a precipitous shift in the power structure within the party.

●雪崩現象を起こす precipitate a landslide [stampede]; have a snowball effect

・雪崩現象を食い止める stop a snowball effect; avert a stampede.

●その一角が崩れるとあとは雪崩現象となって党離脱が相次いだ. After the first group of politicians left that party, it became a veritable landslide.