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Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry
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Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry. and Keep your powder dry.
Prov. Have faith that God will make sure that you win a conflict, but be prepared to fight well and vigorously. (Supposed to have been said by Oliver Cromwell; powder means gunpowder.) Bill: Am I going to win my lawsuit? Alan: All you can do is put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry.
See also: and, dry, keep, powder, put, trust


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Keep your powder dry as "we work together to provide solutions.
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Above all, the treaty tends to ignore axiomatic reality, which is that the only way you deal with nations that present threats of the kind we are discussing is to keep your powder dry but keep your powder.
 
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