cumulative total; accumulated total; total up to now
dangerous situation; perilous position; (lit.) pile of eggs
complicity; implication; involvement
repeated offense; repeated offence
acceleration; progressive increase
worldly troubles; worldliness
successive or progressive increases; cumulative increase
law of superposition; principle of superposition
many a little makes a mickle; every little helps; (lit.) the tower of nine storeys (stories) rose from a small heap of earth