set the ball rolling

基本解释

Matters are quite near to bringing out the support we are looking for to set the ball rolling.
問題非常的接近得到支持了，我們在尋求機會讓雪球滾動起來。
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Tata Chemicals, part of the giant Tata Group, set the low-cost ball rolling last December with its launch of the Swach purifier (‘swach” means “clean” in Hindi) at 999 rupees (about A$25).
龐大的塔塔集團的子公司-塔塔化學品，去年12月以999盧比（約25澳元） (1US$=47盧比) 的價格，推出了"Swach淨化器"（'swach’的印地文意思是"乾淨"）。
We telephone her parents and the British Embassy to set the ball rolling.
我們給她的父母和英國大使館通了電話，球開始轉起來了。

Messrs Gingrich and Romney might note that the man who set this ball rolling was not Mr Obama but Mr Bush, the most un-European politician imaginable.
ECONOMIST: Lexington: Le vieux canard The
He had set the political-reform ball rolling.
ECONOMIST: Banyan