one thing leads to another

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   used to suggest that the way one event or action leads to others is so obvious that it does not need to be stated

   Yeah. One thing leads to another.

In the movies · 1

• Yeah. One thing leads to another.The Last Picture Show1971
• One thing leads to another... and I had to help him.The Sisters Brothers2018

From the same entry

• A is one thing, B is another
• all things being equal
• and things
• be all things to all men
• come to the same thing
• be a good thing
• be no bad thing
• be onto a good thing
• do things to
• do your own thing
• first thing
• first things first

More idioms

• poke your nose into
• push to the back of your mind
• shut the door in face
• take a back seat
• the icing on the cake
• the lesser of two evils
• to put it mildly
• up to a point
• wet behind the ears
• what's up with that
• you could hear a pin drop
• at any rate