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I can't answer the question "What is the Origin of keep you posted?", but I can say that now, at the end of December 2010, it's a widely used and recognized expression at my company. I work at a large Southern California-based video game publisher.
to keep them company so they have a small and cool pet to keep!
Domestic cats are in this world to keep people company.
They fire or hire people and keep the people in a company happy. Mostly.
keep the griseous orb with him
When people go on strike, a company needs to keep functioning. A company will bring people in to work while the strike is going on. These workers are called scabs.
Well, what else is going to keep them company? xD
It is not known how many people died at the Colosseum. The Romans did not keep statistics about this.
Dogs are very important.They help blind people go around and they keep company
Learning about different cultures can be fun. The people of the African Rain forest are known to keep clean by bathing in a river.
It is just an idiom and has no history.
While there are passages that remind us it is important to be careful with whom we associate, that phrase "known by the company you keep" is not in the Bible. 1 Corinthians 15:33 says "Do not be deceived, 'bad company corrupts good morals." I Thessalonians 5:21, 22 tells us to "Prove all things, hold fast to that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil."