be kept in the loop Idiom, Proverb
looped
throw me for a loop
throw sb for a loop
Idiom(s): throw someone for a loop AND knock someone for a loopTheme: CONFUSION
to confuse or shock someone. (Informal.)
• When Bill heard the news, it threw him for a loop.
• The manager knocked Bob for a loop by firing him on the spot.
knock sb for a loop
Idiom(s): throw someone for a loop AND knock someone for a loopTheme: CONFUSION
to confuse or shock someone. (Informal.)
• When Bill heard the news, it threw him for a loop.
• The manager knocked Bob for a loop by firing him on the spot.
In the loop
If you're in the loop, you are fully informed about what is happening in a certain area or activity.knock for a loop|knock|loop|throw|throw for a loop
v. phr., slang To surprise very much. When I heard they were moving, I was really knocked for a loop. The news of their marriage threw me for a loop.for a loop
for a loopsee knock for a loop.
knock for a loop
knock for a loopAlso, throw for a loop; knock down or over with a feather; knock sideways. Overcome with surprise or astonishment, as in The news of his death knocked me for a loop, or Being fired without any warning threw me for a loop, or Jane was knocked sideways when she found out she won. The first two of these hyperbolic colloquial usages, dating from the first half of the 1900s, allude to the comic-strip image of a person pushed hard enough to roll over in the shape of a loop. The third hyperbolic term, often put as You could have knocked me down with a feather, intimating that something so light as a feather could knock one down, dates from the early 1800s; the fourth was first recorded in 1925.
loop
loopsee in the loop; knock for a loop.
out of the loop
out of the loopsee under in the loop.
be kept in the loop
To be kept abreast about and/or complex in something, such as a plan or project, abnormally that which involves or pertains to a specific group. We've assassin a new intern to advice you with the abstracts access allocation of the study, so be abiding she's kept in the loop.Learn more: kept, loop
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