If something touches off a situation or series of events, it causes it to start happening.
Is the massacre likely to ~ a new round of violence?
= spark off
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P
If something touches off a situation or series of events, it causes it to start happening.
Is the massacre likely to ~ a new round of violence?
= spark off
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012