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keep your powder dry - translation to italian
keep your powder dry
1945 FILM BY EDWARD BUZZELL
Keep Your Power Dry
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milk powder
DEHYDRATED MILK
Milk powder; Dry milk; Dried milk; Milk solids; Powder milk; Drymilk; Dried Dairy; Instant milk; Milk solid; Skimmed milk powder; Whole milk powder
latte in polvere (polvere bianca usata invece del latte)
dry milk
DEHYDRATED MILK
Milk powder; Dry milk; Dried milk; Milk solids; Powder milk; Drymilk; Dried Dairy; Instant milk; Milk solid; Skimmed milk powder; Whole milk powder
n. latte in polvere
Definition
keep
I
n.
maintenance
to earn one's keep
II
v.
1) (D; tr.) ('to have') to keep about (esp. BE), around (do you keep a screwdriver around the house?)
2) (d; intr.) to keep after ('to keep persuading') (keep after the children; they are still too untidy)
3) (d; tr.) to keep at ('to hold') (she kept them at their studies)
4) (d; tr.) ('to hold') to keep for (the librarian will keep the book for you)
5) (d; intr., refl.) to keep from ('to refrain') (she could not keep from talking)
6) (d; tr.) ('to conceal') to keep from (to keep a secret from smb.)
7) (d; tr.) ('to hold back'); ('to prevent') to keep from (the rain kept us from going; don't keep her from her work)
8) (d; intr.) ('to remain') to keep off (keep off the grass)
9) (d; tr.) ('to hold') to keep off (keep the children off the street)
10) (d; intr.) ('to remain') to keep out of (keep out of my way; I kept out of their quarrel)
11) (d; tr.) ('to hold') to keep out of (keep the guests out of the house)
12) (d; intr.) ('to be confined') to keep to (she kept to her room)
13) (d; intr.) ('to continue') to keep to (to keep to the right)
14) (D; tr.) ('to reserve') to keep to (to keep a secret to oneself)
15) (G) ('to continue') she kept reading
16) (J) ('to cause') he kept us waiting
17) (N; used with an adjective, noun, past participle) (to maintain'); ('to hold') she kept us busy; they kept him prisoner; the fire kept us warm; she kept the children amused with her stories
18) (P; intr., tr.) ('to continue'); ('to hold') to keep right; to keep a car in a garage
19) (s) ('to remain') to keep quiet; to keep warm
Wikipedia
Keep Your Powder Dry
| music = David Snell
Examples of use of keep your powder dry
1. "Our message to them was ‘Keep your powder dry,‘ " one official said.
2. Unless you‘re Peter Mandelson, you only get to resign once, so it is strategically important to keep your powder dry until the moment is right.
3. Then: "Keep your powder dry," Richardson was quoted by one guest as saying, "I‘m running, and you can tell people that." Two others recalled him saying: "I‘m going in 2008." The group was "a little surprised," said one attendee.
4. Any doubts that Thompson will soon enter the race were erased the moment he cuddled a baby pig and gawked at a cow carved out of butter. Keep your powder dry,‘‘ Thompson told Iowa Republicans during a brief speech at the fair‘s soapbox.‘‘ The actor on NBC‘s Law & Order‘‘ plunged hesitantly into retail politics Iowa–style.