out of the loop

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out of the loop

not having knowledge of or involvement in something A few people at the top knew what was going on, but everybody else was out of the loop. Opposite of: in the loop Related vocabulary: out of the picture

See also: loop, out

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Even they essayed to make him "loop the loop"--rushing him down an inclined trough at so high speed of his legs, accelerated by the slash of whips on his hindquarters, that, with such initial momentum, had he put his heart and will into it, he could have successfully run up the inside of the loop, and across the inside of the top of it, back-downward, like a fly on the ceiling, and on and down and around and out of the loop. Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context More results

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Even they essayed to make him "loop the loop"--rushing him down an inclined trough at so high speed of his legs, accelerated by the slash of whips on his hindquarters, that, with such initial momentum, had he put his heart and will into it, he could have successfully run up the inside of the loop, and across the inside of the top of it, back-downward, like a fly on the ceiling, and on and down and around and out of the loop.

Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context

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