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Labhrás · **Joined:** Sat 03 May 2014 4:01 pm **Posts:** 1970

Another thought on this:

In FGB, the usual translations of such sentences start with "Not that I …"
though "I" is not mentioned in theses sentences. (Maybe, "agam" is left out, too.)
If I try to translate our sentence this way: "Not that I want it to be taken away"

djwebb2021 · **Joined:** Thu 27 May 2021 3:22 am **Posts:** 1727

Labhrás wrote:

djwebb2021 wrote:

It should not be taken away from here = Keep it dark.

How can "It should not be taken away from here" mean "Keep it dark"? And what does keep it dark even mean? Is this mean to mean "this should be kept secret"?

Yes.
I got the impression that it's an English idiom, isn't it?
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Keep+It+Dark
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/keep-dark

FGB/EID has some translations for it (though not this one here).

No, I've never heard it, but it is listed as British English in dictionaries.

Ngramsviewer has this chart of "keep it dark" versus "keep it quiet" and "keep it on the down low", for American English at https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c ... tive=false and for British English at https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c ... tive=false

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