keep someone guessing

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• keep someone guessing — To cause someone to remain in a state of uncertainty • • • Main Entry: ↑guess * * * keep someone guessing phrase to deliberately not tell someone what is happening or what is going to happen The origins of the name kept everyone guessing.… …   Useful english dictionary

• keep someone guessing — keep (someone) guessing if you keep someone guessing, you do not tell them what you are going to do or what will happen next. The clever and complex plot kept the audience guessing right up to the superb final twist …   New idioms dictionary

• keep someone guessing — to deliberately not tell someone what is happening or what is going to happen The origins of the name kept everyone guessing …   English dictionary

• keep guessing — keep (someone) guessing (or chiefly US leave (someone) guessing) : to make it impossible for someone to know what will happen next The many twists and turns in the plot will keep readers guessing until the last page. He likes to leave us guessing …   Useful english dictionary

• keep guessing — keep (someone) guessing if you keep someone guessing, you do not tell them what you are going to do or what will happen next. The clever and complex plot kept the audience guessing right up to the superb final twist …   New idioms dictionary

• guess — guess1 [ ges ] verb intransitive or transitive *** to say or decide what you think is true, without being certain about it: a contest to guess the weight of the pig guess what/who/how etc.: Would anyone like to guess what this object is? guess at …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• guess — I UK [ɡes] / US verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms guess : present tense I/you/we/they guess he/she/it guesses present participle guessing past tense guessed past participle guessed *** a) to say or decide what you think is true, without… …   English dictionary

• guess — 1. noun /ɡɛs/ A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support. Syn: estimate, hypothesis, prediction 2. verb /ɡɛs/ a) To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion …   Wiktionary

• guess — guess1 W3S1 [ges] v [Date: 1200 1300; Origin: Probably from a Scandinavian language] 1.) [I and T] to try to answer a question or form an opinion when you are not sure whether you will be correct ▪ I d say he s around 50, but I m only guessing.… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• guess — 1 /ges/ verb 1 WITHOUT BEING SURE (I, T) to try to answer a question or make a judgment about something without having all the necessary facts, so that you are not sure whether you are correct: I d say he s around 50, but I m only guessing. |… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• guess — [[t]ge̱s[/t]] ♦♦ guesses, guessing, guessed 1) VERB If you guess something, you give an answer or provide an opinion which may not be true because you do not have definite knowledge about the matter concerned. [V that] The suit was faultless:… …   English dictionary