Try not keeping sweets around the house and avoid shopping when you are hungry.
He runs well fresh, we've been keeping him sweet with a bit of hunting and we like to think we can get one fit enough to do himself justice first time up.
To an outsider anyway, it smacks of keeping him sweet, something to maintain his interest.
William Ash, a young guitarist, is keeping the sweet, fleet Wes Montgomery style alive.
They are keeping Beijing sweet by refusing to invite writers – as "visiting authors" – who might upset the regime.
The pods sweeten, soften and char all at once, keeping the sweet little beans nestled safely inside.
The task of keeping Labour sweet had begun a few years before, when the Liberals became worried by Labour's success in byelections.
And it is keeping shareholders sweet with steadily rising dividends and a share-buyback programme.But today's frantic dealmaking means conglomerates such as GE find it harder to argue that they are worth more than the sum of their parts.
When Kakuei Tanaka, the boss of their faction, was weakened after being accused, among other misdeeds, of taking bribes, the two men set about taking over.Kakuei Tanaka has become a sort of legend, practising on a vast scale what Americans call pork-barrel politics: keeping constituencies sweet with public works projects, which in turn kept his business backers happy.
Part of Truman Capote's beef against Mailer was that, whereas he, Capote, had spent six months interrogating "his" killers, keeping them sweet with comic books and cookies, Mailer hadn't so much as been in the same execution chamber as Gary Gilmore.
