Daily life
keep it low-key
keep an occasion relaxed
To keep an occasion low-key means to make it relaxed, informal, and not too elaborate.
Hear it in real life
Are you having a big party tonight?
No, we are keeping it low-key with a few close friends.
We are keeping the wedding reception low-key because neither of us likes being the centre of attention.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: We kept low-key the birthday dinner.
Say: We kept the birthday dinner low-key.
Put the event before "low-key" when using this pattern.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
keep it low-key; keep something low-key
Your turn: say it out loud
We are keeping the wedding reception low-key because neither of us likes being the centre of attention.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
keep it low-key
keep an occasion relaxed
“We are keeping the wedding reception low-key because neither of us likes being the centre of attention.”
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