Usually means: Maintain readiness for future action.
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  1. Keep Your Powder Dry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  2. Keep your Powder Dry: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  3. Keep your powder dry: Phrase Finder
  4. keep your powder dry, Keep Your Powder Dry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Keep Your Powder Dry: Idioms

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▸ noun:  a 1945 American drama film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Lana Turner, Susan Peters, and Laraine Day.


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