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> **1つの嘘から始まった連鎖は留まることを知らない** 。

I think the above sentence is an idiom. I'm just guessing that the meaning is
(roughly): Once we began to tell a lie, we will try to cover our lie with more
lies.

**留まることを知らない** (as I read it from **meaning-book.com** /): " **don't know when
to stop** ".

But I'm not sure how to translate **1つの嘘から始まった連鎖は**. (A chain that started
from 1 lie?)

Thank you in advance for the guidance.
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1つの嘘から始まった連鎖は meaning
> 留まることを知らない (as I read it from meaning-book.com/): "don't know when to stop".

The meaning is more like "nobody knows how/where it will end".

> But I'm not sure how to translate 1つの嘘から始まった連鎖は. (A chain that started from
> 1 lie?)

Your notion of the meaning is correct, but you could translate it into English
as "what", as in something like "what started with a single lie", you don't
necessarily have to literally translate the 連鎖 into English.
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