keep me in the loop
keep me informed and up-to-date
TRANSLATION
keep someone in the loop = jemanden auf dem Laufenden halten --- GOOGLE INDEX keep someone in the loop: approximately 10,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Twenty-first century technology has ensured that we are constantly available and IN THE LOOP...
(Financial Times)
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'Facebook' for kids keeps parents IN THE LOOP
(BusinessWeek magazine - article headline)
(Financial Times)
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'Facebook' for kids keeps parents IN THE LOOP
(BusinessWeek magazine - article headline)
Did you
know?
in the loop
idiom
- to be part of a group that is kept up-to-date with information about something
(The American Heritage Dictionary)
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Albert Einstein once said that "information is not knowledge." It would be interesting to know if he would still have this opinion had he lived in the information age. Today, for most people keeping up-to-date is a survival technique, particularly in the workplace. The expression "keep me in the loop" can thus be heard in office hallways around the world every day.
But what does "loop" have to do with it? Among other things, a loop is something having a shape, order, or path of motion that is circular or curved over on itself. And in the field of electricity, it refers to a closed circuit. In our expression, the loop is used in a figurative sense to refer to a group of people who form a virtual loop over which information is passed.
Being "in the loop" means receiving the information that everyone else in the loop gets. There is no need to guess what happens when someone is "out of the loop." When this happens, they may feel like "knocking someone for a loop" or "throwing someone for a loop", both of which are idioms that mean to unexpectedly and severely upset someone.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Please keep me in the loop, I'll be checking e-mail while on vacation."
idiom
- to be part of a group that is kept up-to-date with information about something
(The American Heritage Dictionary)
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Albert Einstein once said that "information is not knowledge." It would be interesting to know if he would still have this opinion had he lived in the information age. Today, for most people keeping up-to-date is a survival technique, particularly in the workplace. The expression "keep me in the loop" can thus be heard in office hallways around the world every day.
But what does "loop" have to do with it? Among other things, a loop is something having a shape, order, or path of motion that is circular or curved over on itself. And in the field of electricity, it refers to a closed circuit. In our expression, the loop is used in a figurative sense to refer to a group of people who form a virtual loop over which information is passed.
Being "in the loop" means receiving the information that everyone else in the loop gets. There is no need to guess what happens when someone is "out of the loop." When this happens, they may feel like "knocking someone for a loop" or "throwing someone for a loop", both of which are idioms that mean to unexpectedly and severely upset someone.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Please keep me in the loop, I'll be checking e-mail while on vacation."
