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do a disappearing act
Idioms and Phrases
Vanish, as in As soon as the teacher came outside, Mary did a disappearing act . This expression describes a sudden disappearance as if by magic and presumably alludes to a magician's performance. [ Colloquial ; early 1900s]Example Sentences
Gnocchi often do a disappearing act in the pan – a character in a Pellegrino Artusi story goes as far as saying a sprite stole them – so to give yours the best chance, you need to use waxy potatoes, plus parmesan, flour, salt and nutmeg.
The new Gmail offers a partial solution to that: make old emails do a disappearing act.
From combination home office–guest rooms to living rooms that do a disappearing act, these ideas are here to help.
“I aim to win it back, and I don’t want to see it do a disappearing act before the day of the race.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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