disappear into thin air
Leave no trace
To disappear into thin air is to vanish completely and mysteriously, leaving no trace or explanation: The documents disappeared into thin air.
The phrase emphasizes the baffling nature of the disappearance—as if someone or something evaporated into nothing.
Often used when things go missing under puzzling circumstances: My keys have disappeared into thin air.
- evanesceDisappear by degrees
- absentNot in attendance
- vanishCease to be visible
- evaporateTransition to gaseous state
- dematerializeCease to exist physically
fade · intangibility · dissipate · spirited away · disintegrate · inexplicable · magic trick · flee · poof · abscond · vanishing act · without a trace · left no trace · escape · up in smoke · tenuous · enigmatic · vaporous
disappear into thin airmaterialize
Become physically present
pop up · emerge · manifest · spring up · come into view
disappear, appear, appearance, disappearance, appearing, appeared, disappeared, thinner, thinly