out of the loop
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Meaning · English
Not informed or involved in a situation or decision
Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt
Không được thông tin hoặc tham gia vào tình huống hoặc quyết định
Machine-translated — suggest a fix
Literally: outside a circular flow of information
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
I ' ve been out of the loop for a while.
For five years Bush insisted he was ‘ out of the loop’ on the arms for hostages deal.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed in Wiktionary’s “English idioms” category (retrieved 2026-07-29); definition pending editorial review. Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-31; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “out of the loop” mean?
Not informed or involved in a situation or decision Literally: outside a circular flow of information
Is “out of the loop” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.