egg on
phrasal verbegg somebody on
- (informal) to encourage somebody to do something, especially something that they should not do
- He hit the other boy again and again as his friends egged him on.
Definition of egg on phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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ripple effect
noun
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Change, cause and effect
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