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in the loop
Idioms and Phrases
Provided with information and included in a decision-making process. For example, She's new to the board, but be sure to keep her in the loop . This expression uses loop in the sense of “a circle of individuals among whom information or responsibility circulates.†The antonym out of the loop , meaning “left out of such a circle,†dates from the same period. For example, The chairman was consistently leaving Chris out of the loop . [1970s]Example Sentences
But the Dodgers should have used other Japanese speakers on the staff — and kept fans in the loop by issuing a statement, Heider added.
“I think about how catastrophic thinking can be generative, how to not keep it in the loop, but to bring it out into something else,†says Chang.
You may need to watch, oh, five series to feel in the loop.
My agents would stress that I would be out of the loop, but I was like, ‘I don’t want to be in the loop and be pigeonholed.’
Christina Applegate has kept her fans in the loop regarding her battle with multiple sclerosis since she was diagnosed three years ago.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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