(Nobody wrote it down at the time, and its first report came in 1834, but I say let's give it to him. Easily move forward or backward to get to the perfect spot.
Thus, the phrase keep your powder dry is not limited to ''stay calm'' but carries an implicit, most ominous threat: ''and be prepared to blow the enemy's head off at the propitious moment.'' )The Pretender wasn't talking talcum; gunpowder was his subject, and when the powder is wet, the gun does not go off and the ammunition just sits there. Thus, the phrase keep your powder dry is not limited to ''stay calm'' but carries an implicit, most ominous threat: ''and be prepared to blow the enemy's head off at the propitious moment. Keep that powder dry.Life Sentence (2018) - S01E03 Clinical Trial and ErrorParks and Recreation (2009) - S05E08 Pawnee CommonsShameless (2011) S08E06 Icarus Fell and Rusty Ate HimYarn is the best way to find video clips by quote. It's available on the web and also on Android and iOS.
Raise the main topyard. The compound verb spoon-feed began in 1615 to describe a means of feeding the infantile or feeble. The press gasped at the audacity of the mangled metaphor, and Netanyahu responded, ''Do something with that, Safire. In Netanyahu's use, it meant ''Israel is prepared to settle for a fair shake from nations usually on the side of the Arabs.'' ''That cannot be the message that Clinton, in his bipartisan mood, intended to convey. Pro-Israel advocates, citing America's moral commitment to an island of democracy that was also a reliable strategic partner, retorted that ''what Israel needs is not a broker but an ally''; to this group, evenhandedness was a code word made famous by the U.S. fact finder William Scranton in the late 60's for helping the rest of the world press Israel for concessions.The adjective was coined by Shakespeare in ''Macbeth'' and carried an ironic overtone: ''This even-handed justice/Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chal ice/To our own lips.'' Keep your head down so nobody shoots it off, and keep your gunpowder dry so it will shoot. In 1971, Stewart wrote prophetically in his Newsweek column about Czech politics: ''Alexander Dubcek will certainly not be the last of the liberals to fall victim to the salami knife. By metaphoric extension, to spoon-feed means ''to explain or persuade in small, understandable portions; to make easy to swallow and digest information. The specific Rakosi citation has not been found, but the phrase's popularizers were surely the columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop, who much preferred the striking image to the bloodless ''gradualism.'' (Fair shake, an 1830 Americanism, may be a metaphoric extension of the even hand. THE RETURN OF the regular, monthly Presidential news conference is a fine thing, not the least because it gives us a chance to instruct the Chief Executive -- and one another -- on the use of famous phrases.Pleased at the prospect of bipartisan cooperation, President Clinton said, ''Now both sides are keeping their powder dry enough to create the possibility we can reach a balanced budget agreement.'' You keep your powder dry please: With all due respect: This is plain BS and even repeated, still remains plain BS (that same message has been distributed through the net a thousand times by now but that does not make it any more right and just shows that people are easily manipulated into brainlessly repeating BS on the slightest incident):
This was the year of the ''network society,'' plugging a plugged-in world, and the netties found it easy to get hooked.Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, held a breakfast for diplomatic reporters and foreign-policy sages.