disappear into thin air
English
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Popularized by Shakespeare, see quotations.
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- (idiomaticCategory:English idioms#INTOTHINAIR) Immediately and inexplicably out of sight.
- He seemed to vanish into thin air.Category:English terms with usage examples#INTOTHINAIR
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 15, column 1:
- Our Reuels now are ended: Theſe our actors, / (As I foretold you) were all Spirits, and / Are melted into Ayre, into thin Ayre, / And like the baſeleſſe fabricke of this viſionCategory:English terms with quotations#INTOTHINAIR
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