"keep someone guessing" meaning in All languages combined

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps someone guessing",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping someone guessing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept someone guessing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept someone guessing",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> someone guessing"
      },
      "expansion": "keep someone guessing (third-person singular simple present keeps someone guessing, present participle keeping someone guessing, simple past and past participle kept someone guessing)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1924, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, “Chapter 7”, in The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson:",
          "text": "She could not even dimly understand Helen's merry protestation that it was fun to make people wonder and keep them guessing.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Geoffrey Zakarian, Geoffrey Zakarian's Town/Country: 150 Recipes for Life Around the Table, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, →ISBN, page 8:",
          "text": "But I do like to delight people with intense, focused, essential flavors, to give them the pure joy of fresh asparagus in springtime. I'm looking to amuse them and maybe (occasionally) keep them guessing: \"How did he get that asparagus to taste so... asparagussy?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Mike Ollerton, Getting the Buggers to Add Up, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 164:",
          "text": "Being slightly off one’s trolley\nUppermost in my list of top four teaching behaviours is being ever-so-slightly crazy ... to keep students guessing whether or not I have lost my marbles, and being not quite so predictable.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in such a way that others do not fully understand what one has done or do not know what to expect next."
      ],
      "id": "en-keep_someone_guessing-en-verb-Ot3Gkdvt",
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "tener adivinando a alguien"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep someone guessing"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps someone guessing",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping someone guessing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept someone guessing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept someone guessing",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> someone guessing"
      },
      "expansion": "keep someone guessing (third-person singular simple present keeps someone guessing, present participle keeping someone guessing, simple past and past participle kept someone guessing)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1924, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, “Chapter 7”, in The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson:",
          "text": "She could not even dimly understand Helen's merry protestation that it was fun to make people wonder and keep them guessing.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Geoffrey Zakarian, Geoffrey Zakarian's Town/Country: 150 Recipes for Life Around the Table, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, →ISBN, page 8:",
          "text": "But I do like to delight people with intense, focused, essential flavors, to give them the pure joy of fresh asparagus in springtime. I'm looking to amuse them and maybe (occasionally) keep them guessing: \"How did he get that asparagus to taste so... asparagussy?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Mike Ollerton, Getting the Buggers to Add Up, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 164:",
          "text": "Being slightly off one’s trolley\nUppermost in my list of top four teaching behaviours is being ever-so-slightly crazy ... to keep students guessing whether or not I have lost my marbles, and being not quite so predictable.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in such a way that others do not fully understand what one has done or do not know what to expect next."
      ]
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "tener adivinando a alguien"
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep someone guessing"
}