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intothinair

1. (idiomatic) Immediately andinexplicablyout of sight.

   He seemed to vanishinto thin air.

   • 1610–1611 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene i],page15, 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 viſion

• Normally preceded bydisappear orvanish.

• out of thin air
• vanish to the four winds

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