vanishing act
Magic show finale
A vanishing act is a magic trick in which someone or something disappears.
More often, the phrase describes someone who has suddenly become unreachable or unavailable: He pulled a vanishing act right before the deadline.
The implication is deliberate evasion—the person chose to disappear rather than face something.
- ghostingAbruptly ceasing all communication
- magic trickPerformed feat seeming impossible
- magic showPerformance of illusions
- prestidigitationSkillful hand-based illusions
- sleight of handSkillful manual deception
poof · misdirection · without a trace · drop off the radar · illusionist · smoke and mirrors · disappearance · trickery · Houdini · invisibility · getaway · fugitive · teleportation · escape artist · ruse · retreat · evasion · concealment
- disappearingfade, disappear, vanishing, evaporate, gone
- evasionevasion, avoiding, avoids, evade, dodging
- disappeareddisappeared, gone, faded, dissolved, evaporated
- tricksmagic trick, card trick, card tricks, coin trick, rope trick
- stage illusionstrap door, levitation, disappearing act, smoke and mirrors, mirror trick
- deceptionlie, lies, lying, fake, fraud
vanishing actgrand entrance
Ostentatious way to appear
dramatic entrance · appearance · arrival · emergence · materialization
vanishing actshowing up
Arriving at a place
stepping up · sticking around · standing one's ground · facing the music · staying put
action, active, acting, activity, actions, vanish, activate, actors, vanished