to keep in the loop
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3.5
- phrasal verb
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mantener informado
- Please keep me in the loop about any changes to the schedule.
- try to keep in the loop
You go no, I keep your mom in the loop.
- You go no, I keep your mom in the loop.
- Also life update just to keep you guys in the loop.
- But they, they were trying to keep her in the loop.
- So I feel like so much has changed and I haven't been keeping up with keeping you guys in the loop.
Examples
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Once again, you hit the nail on the head—thanks for keeping me in the loop.
Blog text (16) -
We haven't gotten the test results back, but we're gonna keep you in the loop on this, okay?
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So we will have to keep each other in the loop and we'll do another one.
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If you could just like, keep me in the loop, man.
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I expect to be kept in the loop on this one.
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Steve will keep us in the loop.
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And we're keeping you in the loop.
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I wanted to keep you in the loop.
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You keep me in the loop on the real events in our world.
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Keep me in the loop about the situation.
Synonyms
62
3.5
Tell someone often about new events or changes
Antonyms
How Informed
753
2.8
16
3.5
∞
1.0
- Formal
367
3.1
181
3.7
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'keep' (retain) with the locative 'in' and a figurative use of 'loop' meaning being inside a circle of informed people, so there is a partial compositional sense of 'keeping someone inside an information circle.' However, the specific idiomatic sense 'to make sure someone is regularly informed' relies on the non-literal meaning of 'in the loop' that a B1 learner who only knows the literal sense of 'loop' may not infer, so the expression is only partially predictable.
Etymology
Keep in the loop comes from the image of people standing in a circle and passing messages around, with the loop as the circle that shares news. So it means 'to keep someone informed'.