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 Keep your Breath to Cool your Porridge.Keepers. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Keep your Powder Dry.
 
Keep prepared for action; keep your courage up.   1
       
“Go forth and conquer, Strephon mine,
This kiss upon your lips retaining;
A precept that is also thine
Forbids the teardrop hot and straining.
We’re Mars and Venus, you and I,
And both must ‘keep our powder dry.’”
       
Sims: Dagonet Ballads (In Love and War).
 


 Keep your Breath to Cool your Porridge.Keepers. 

 
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