into thin air
Vanished without trace
Into thin air describes something vanishing completely, as if it dissolved into the atmosphere and left no trace.
The phrase emphasizes mysterious or inexplicable disappearance: The money vanished into thin air, She seemed to appear out of thin air.
Thin air suggests empty space—somewhere with nothing to hide behind or disappear into, making the vanishing all the more remarkable.
- poofSound of vanishing
- out of sightNot able to be seen
- evaporateTransition to gaseous state
- vanishCease to be visible
- vanishing actAbrupt, unexplained departure
puff of smoke · dematerialize · dissolve · melted away · up in smoke · phantom · dissipate · without a trace · gone missing · Houdini · fade · ephemeral · mirage · illusion · fleeting · here today · elude · transient
- disappearedvanished, disappeared, gone, vanish, faded
into thin airout of thin air
Without apparent source
out of nowhere · out of the blue · front and center · in plain sight
into thin airbit by bit
In small increments
slowly but surely · in plain view · gradually · step by step · inch by inch
thin, into, thinner, thinnest, thinly, thinness, airs, airy, airily