be left in the dark (about something)
be left in the dark (about something)
To be kept uninformed (about something); to be excluded from full knowledge or disclosure (of something). The president was left in the dark about the CIA's assassination attempt so that if things went sour and came to public light, she could claim plausible deniability. I don't fully trust John to keep our plan a secret, so I think it best that he be left in the dark for now.
See also: dark, left
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- be kept in the dark (about something)
- in the dark about (something)
- leave (someone) in the dark (about something)
- keep (someone) in the dark (about something)
- keep in the dark
- keep someone in the dark
- stay in the dark
- stay in the dark about (something)
- have a working knowledge of (something)
- have a working knowledge of something