disappearing acts
Staged sudden absences
Disappearing acts are sudden, unexplained absences—usually by someone who was expected to stay in contact.
The phrase comes from stage magic, where performers vanish dramatically, but in everyday use it describes people who go silent or unavailable without warning: He pulled one of his disappearing acts and didn't answer texts for a week.
Often implies unreliability or avoidance.
- evanesceDisappear by degrees
- vanishCease to be visible
- escapologyArt of freeing oneself
- dematerializeCease to exist physically
- Irish goodbyeDeparting without announcing
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- red flagsred flags, warning signs, warning, caution, alarm
disappearing actsmaterializations
Acts of becoming physical
unveilings · manifestations · reappearances · apparitions · emergences
disappearing actsshowing up
Arriving at a place
staying power · sticking around · standing by · dependability · loyalty
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