What does keep one's eye in mean?

keep one's eye in

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English

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"A man must have some work to keep his eye in and his muscles at work."
"He'd have a beer first, just to keep his eye in; and afterwards he would have a little of the hard stuff."
"He went trap-shooting to keep his eye in, out of season"

keeps one's eye in (present, singular) keeping one's eye in (participle, present) kept one's eye in (participle, past) kept one's eye in (past)

get one's eye in

get one's eye in

keep one's hand in

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