into thin air

Language: en

Meaning: (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

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