went poof
Gone without trace
Went poof describes something that suddenly vanished or ceased to exist, often without explanation.
The phrase evokes a magician's disappearing act—one moment something is there, the next it's gone: My savings went poof when the market crashed.
It can describe physical disappearance or abstract loss: Our plans for the weekend went poof when she got called into work.
- magic trickPerformed feat seeming impossible
- vanishing actAbrupt, unexplained departure
- vanishedDisappeared from sight
- into thin airDisappeared entirely, mysteriously
- disappearPass from visibility
without a trace · smoke and mirrors · up in smoke · ghosting · fleeting · evaporate · elusive · kaput · dissipate · evanescent · erased · abscond · thin air · ephemeral · obliterated · gone · dematerialize · lost
went poofstayed put
Continued in place
remained · materialized · appeared · persisted · endured
went pooffaded away
Gradually lost presence
waned · petered out · dwindled · tapered off · withered away
went poofmaterialized
Became physically present
showed up · sprang up · emerged · manifested · cropped up