idiomC2to notknowabout something that otherpeopleknowabout蒙在鼓里,浑然不知SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesUnaware
be on another planetidiom
benighted
blind spot
blindly
blindness
blissful
foggy
Goodness/God/Heaven/Christ knowsidiom
in blissful ignoranceidiom
innumeracy
innumerate
insensate
lost
misunderstand
stump
unacquainted
unattuned
unawakened
unaware
unawareness
See more results ?(Definition ofbe in the darkfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)Examples from literature
Being in the dark, sir, I prefer not to commit myself in writing.
However, I was in the dark about him, and as much afraid of him as any body, when he broke into sight of me round a corner, without any tokens of amity.
I am afraid, Lady Henry, that here, too, you are in the dark, she said, quietly, though her thin arm shook against her dress.
I had always been in the dark concerning him.
Where the old authors whom he has read, and the old men whom he has conversed with, have left him in the dark, he is in the dark still.