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into thin air

into thin air prepositional phrase: immediately and inexplicably out of sight.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Immediately and inexplicably out of sight.
    • He seemed to vanish into thin air.
    • Our Reuels now are ended: Theſe our actors, / (As I foretold you) were all Spirits, and / Are melted into Ayre, into thin Ayre, / And like the baſeleſſe fabricke of this viſion1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...

into thin air meaning in Tamil

into thin air in Tamil

இவைகளையும் காணவும்

Origin of into thin air

Popularized by Shakespeare, see quotations.

Questions about into thin air

What does into thin air mean?
Into thin air means immediately and inexplicably out of sight.
What is into thin air in Tamil?
Into thin air in Tamil is இவைகளையும் காணவும். See Into thin air meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is into thin air?
Into thin air is a prepositional phrase.

Words near into thin air in the dictionary

  1. into place
  2. into shape
  3. into space
  4. into the bargain
  5. into the stratosphere
  6. into thin air
  7. into time
  8. into't
  9. intoed
  10. intolerabilities
  11. intolerability

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