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into thin air

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Etymology

Popularized by Shakespeare, see quotations.

Definitions

  1. Immediately and inexplicably out of sight.

    • He seemed to vanish into thin air.
    • 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 viſion

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for into thin air. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA