evaporate\ into\ thin\ air

evaporate\ into\ thin\ air
• disappear into thin air
• evaporate into thin air
• vanish into thin air
v. phr.
To disappear quickly, without leaving a trace.

Money seems to disappear into thin air these days.

Jack just vanished into thin air before the meeting had started.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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