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in the dark en · ADP

Pronunciation

  • /ɪn ðə dɑːk/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ɪn ðə daɹk/ (Scotland)
  • ĭn thə därk
  • /ɪn d̪e ɖaːʳk/ (India)
  • /ɪn ðə dɐːk/ (Australia)
  • /ɪn ðə dɑɹk/ (Canada, General-American)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ən ðə dɐːk/ (New-Zealand)

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) Without information.
    • Until two or three days before Carter's December 15 announcement, the State Department spokesman was still saying that no decisions had been reached on the timing and the modality for normalization of relations with Peking. Meanwhile, the administration had been keeping Congress, including its leadership, completely in the dark. Then, taking advantage of the Christmas holidays, during which no one was watching on Capitol Hill, Carter sprang his surprise. 1983, James C. H. Shen, “Beginnings of Endings”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:
    • Management kept the board of directors completely in the dark.
    • They remained in the dark until the newspaper story came out.
    • You must remember, Mr Atherton, that I am wholly in the dark as to what has happened. 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
  2. (slang) Without looking at one's hole cards, thus not knowing what they are.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, the, dark; without light, somewhere that is dark.
    • I tripped over his suitcase in the dark.

Antonyms

in the loop · in the know

Deriveds

shot in the dark

Synonyms

out of touch · out of the loop

Translations (16)

es en la inopia (without information) · rsk поцме (without light) · es (dejar) en mantillas (without information) · pt no escuro (without information) · it all'oscuro (without information) · es a oscuras (without light) · it all'oscuro (without light) · ca a les fosques (without information) · de im Dunkeln (without information) · es en la oscuridad (without light) · it nel buio (without light) · pl po ciemku (without light) · de im Dunkeln (without light) · pl niewiedzący (without looking at one's hole cards) · ca a les fosques (without light) · pl niewtajemniczony (without information)