vanishing acts
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Vanishing acts are disappearances, especially sudden or mysterious ones.
The phrase comes from stage magic, where performers make objects or people seem to vanish.
It extends to anyone who becomes unreachable or leaves abruptly: He's famous for his vanishing acts—one minute he's at the party, the next he's gone.
The singular vanishing act is more common.
- disappearing actSudden, unexplained departure
- prestidigitationSkillful hand-based illusions
- misdirectionIntentional focus manipulation
- conjuringPerforming magical illusions
- legerdemainSkillful hand-based deception
magic · smoke and mirrors · dissolution · elusiveness · absconding · slip away · erasure · without a trace · impermanence · ghosting · escapology · transience · disappearance · loss · missing persons · missing in action · card tricks · poof
- sleight of handpalming, misdirection, vanishes, passes, steals
vanishing actsarrivals
Those who come
appearances · materializations · emergences · manifestations · debuts
vanishing actsshowing up
Arriving at a place
sticking around · staying power · steadfastness · reliability · follow-through
vanishing actsstaying power
Capacity to keep going
constants · mainstays · fixtures · stalwarts · here to stay