start/set/get the ball rolling
C2 to do something that starts an activity, or to start doing something in order to encourage other people to do the same:
I decided to set the ball rolling and got up to dance.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- export
- go ahead
- ground
- incipient
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick-start
- strike
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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