in the dark

prep_phrase
/ɪn ðə dɑːk/UK/ɪn ðə dɑɹk/CA/ɪn ðə dɐːk/

Definitions

  1. Without information.

    • 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.
  2. Without looking at one's hole cards, thus not knowing what they are.

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, the, dark; without light, somewhere that is dark.

    • I tripped over his suitcase in the dark.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for in the dark. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA