in the dark

Idioms  

1. In secret, in concealment, as in This agreement was concluded in the dark . [Early 1600s]

2. In a state of ignorance, uninformed, as in I was in the dark about their plans . This metaphor often appears in the locution keep someone in the dark , meaning “deliberately keep someone uninformed,” as in They kept me in the dark about their plans . [Late 1600s] For an antonym, see in the know .

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Example Sentences

"Wars are not started by films. But wars are easier to justify when societies have already learned to cheer them in the dark."

From BBC

But eventually she adjusts and swims in the dark, beneath the ice, from one temporary opening to another, making a journey that is about much more than space and time.

From The Wall Street Journal

But she has also had to leave work, and on a bad day she is in bed in the dark.

From BBC

Thousands of light-sticks shifted colour in the dark, moving in rhythm and revealing the size of the crowd, which had filled the square.

From BBC

The deportees wandered in the dark until they found a park, where Rodríguez spent the first of what would be many nights curled up on the ground, trying to sleep.

From Los Angeles Times