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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a friend to keep" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a friend who is valued and intended to be maintained in one's life.
Example: "In times of trouble, it's important to have a friend to keep by your side."
Alternatives: "a friend to cherish" or "a friend to hold onto".
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Still, he returned on Monday with a friend to keep him company.
So she gave it to a friend to keep for her.
After her death he gave the image of her tense, fiercely smiling face to a friend to keep.
"I have done everything in my power," he told a friend, "to keep it out of the papers".
So says Alan Grant, a police inspector recovering from an operation in hospital, who is given a pile of portraits by a friend to keep him occupied.
"I can't remember any murderer … who looked like him". So says Alan Grant, a police inspector recovering from an operation in hospital, who is given a pile of portraits by a friend to keep him occupied.
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Ask your spouse or a close friend to keep tabs on you and check in.
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A little friend to keep it company.
Give the TV to a family member or friend to keep for a week to a month whilst the whole family goes cold turkey and relearns what they used to do before the TV was invented.
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