vanish into thin air

Anglais

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Locution verbale

vanish into thin air \Prononciation ?\

1. (Sens figuré) Se déguiser en courant d’air, s'évanouir, se volatiliser.
   • “Now, you will observe that he could not have been on the staff of the hospital, since only a man well-established in a London practice could hold such a position, and such a one would not drift into the country. What was he, then? If he was in the hospital and yet not on the staff, he could only have been a house-surgeon or a house-physician—little more than a senior student. And he left five years ago—the date is on the stick. So your grave, middle-aged family practitioner vanishes into thin air, my dear Watson, and there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favourite dog, which I should describe roughly as being larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff.” — (Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902)