Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “keep one’s powder dry” and its meaning is “be prepared for an emergency”.
Example Sentence: Mandarins (powerful government officials) within India’s economic management establishment often claim that India kept its powder dry in 2020-2021 by being fiscally conservative (cautious). They derided the experts who had called for more cash transfers or other similar mechanisms to put more money in the hands of the poor. In the last two years, the often-promised public capital expenditure has not fructified (become fruitful) beyond repeated grand announcements.
This word is present in The Hindu article Recovery analysis that points out what India got wrong and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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