in the dark vs showing

in the dark

prep
  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Without light; somewhere that is dark. 

  • Without looking at one's hole cards, thus not knowing what they are. 

  • Without information. 

showing

noun
  • An occasion when something is shown. 

  • A result, a judgement. 

How often have the words in the dark and showing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )