go poof
Disappear like magic
Go poof means to vanish suddenly or cease to exist, often unexpectedly: One day the money was there, the next it went poof.
The phrase evokes a magician's disappearing act—the theatrical sound effect when something vanishes in a puff of smoke.
It typically describes things that disappear without warning or explanation: savings, relationships, opportunities.
Our vacation plans went poof when the airline canceled.
- evaporateTransition to gaseous state
- disappearPass from visibility
- vanishCease to be visible
- thin airSeeming nothingness
- vanishing actAbrupt, unexplained departure
extinguish · teleport · dissolve · dissipate · up in smoke · erase · dematerialize · puff of smoke · magic trick · abscond · collapse · terminate · sublimate · expire · fade · whoosh · implode · burst into flames
go poofpersist
Continue firmly onward
remain · endure · stick around · stay · last
go pooferode
Diminish through persistent friction
decay · dwindle · peter out · taper off · waste away
go poofmaterialize
Become physically present
appear · manifest · come into being · come out of nowhere · spring up