hot up
UK informal — phrasal verb with hot /hɒt/
/hɑːt/ verb (-tt-)Definition
› If an event or situation hots up, it becomes more exciting and more things start to happen: A few days before the elections, the pace began to hot up. The competition is really hotting up now.Increasing and intensifying
(Definition of hot up from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- a snowball effect idiom
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