| A | B |
|---|
| a flood of ideas | having many, many ideas all at once or at the same time |
| be consumed by | to be totally involved in |
| generate | produce or create |
| make a splash | to be successful in a short time |
| transmit | passing of something from one person, place, or thing to another |
| contagious | easily passed from one person to another |
| a ripple effect | gradually spreading |
| come around | to change people's ideas on an issue; to agree on something |
| get a hold of | to contact or communicate with |
| to profile | to describe how someone looks |
| trigger | a cause for something to happen |
| epidemic | when a disease spreads very quickly and affects a large number of people |
| a social epidemic | when many people start to do something in society that is usually bad all at the same time |
| crime wave | a large of amount of crime that happen all at the same time in big numbers |
| go through the roof | to be very very successful |
| relentless | very determined |
| win someone over | to persuade someone to your side - to change a person's mind |
| swim against the tide | to go against what society wants or accepts as normal |
| band-aid solution | a temporary solution to a very big problem |
| float an idea | to try something new or to suggest an idea that is new in order to experiment |
| immune | to resist sth |
| to root | to be a cause or source of something |
| word-of-mouth | related to people telling people |
| be immune to an idea | to not be able to accept a new idea |
| be triggered by | to start something |
| to flood | to give a large amount of information very quickly |
| infect | to affect or influence a situation or people by new ideas |
| to spread | to go out in many directions all at once |
| the tide turns | the changing of ideas or beliefs |
| wave | a large amount of something |
