beeja
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Help me, please
1) Didn't that up the stakes considerably?
Q: What does "up the stakes" mean?
2) He woke in the dead dark with his head banging with all the gusto and violence of his young nephew slamming pot lids together. He managed to roll over to what he thought was his back. Thy way his head was pounding and spinning, he couldn't be sure.
Q: There is nothing talking about his nephew (cousin) at all but why the author wrote "his young nephew slamming pot lids together" what does it exactly mean?
3) You can pop me for the B and E. It'll sting. I'll get around it, but it'll sting.
Q: B&E here is breaking and entering. But what is "It'll sting" mean here?
4) It seems six of one to me.
Q: What does it mean?
5) His boss was unlikely to be pleased he’d been busted slithering around the fine points of the law. Not that he’d slithered, but that he’d gotten caught.
Q: What does "slithering around the fine points of the law" mean?
That's all, thanks!!!

1) Didn't that up the stakes considerably?
Q: What does "up the stakes" mean?
2) He woke in the dead dark with his head banging with all the gusto and violence of his young nephew slamming pot lids together. He managed to roll over to what he thought was his back. Thy way his head was pounding and spinning, he couldn't be sure.
Q: There is nothing talking about his nephew (cousin) at all but why the author wrote "his young nephew slamming pot lids together" what does it exactly mean?
3) You can pop me for the B and E. It'll sting. I'll get around it, but it'll sting.
Q: B&E here is breaking and entering. But what is "It'll sting" mean here?
4) It seems six of one to me.
Q: What does it mean?
5) His boss was unlikely to be pleased he’d been busted slithering around the fine points of the law. Not that he’d slithered, but that he’d gotten caught.
Q: What does "slithering around the fine points of the law" mean?
That's all, thanks!!!