| 单词 | to come out of thin air |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come (etc.) out of thin air b. transferred and figurative. Wanting body or substance; unsubstantial; intangible. Also in to vanish (melt, etc.) into thin air: to disappear completely from sight or existence (formerly only of spirits). More rarely to come (etc.) out of thin air. Now chiefly colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear formeltc893 wendOE witea1000 aworthc1000 fleec1200 fleetc1200 withdraw1297 vanish1303 voidc1374 unkithea1400 startc1405 disappearc1425 disparishc1425 to fall awayc1443 evanish?a1475 vade1495 sinka1500 vade1530 fly1535 fadea1538 melt?1567 dispear1600 relinquish1601 foist1603 dispersea1616 to vanish (melt, etc.) into thin aira1616 dissipate1626 retire1647 evaporate1713 merge1802 illude1820 to foam off1826 dislimn1833 furl1844 to step out1844 evanesce1855 shade1880 wisp1883 to go to the winds1884 walk1898 to do a disappearing act1913 to go west1916 to do (or take) a fade1949 to phase out1970 the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective] flittingc1374 aerya1398 bottomlessa1413 hollowa1529 flittering1549 wanzing1571 aerial1581 slight1585 flit1590 windy1593 filmy1594 tenuous1597 unsubstantial1597 yeasty1598 thingless1599 airy1600 spare1602 spongy1603 insubstantial1607 baselessa1616 thina1616 insolid1618 insubstantiate1621 tenuious1634 bubble1635 thin-spun1638 subventaneous1646 unsubstanceda1658 whipped1673 aericala1678 huffy1678 blatherya1693 naughty1696 substanceless1784 vapoury1818 aeriform1827 airified1837 blow-away1858 non-substantial1858 unbased1860 evasive1881 stuffless1896 fabricless1905 lighter-than-air1909 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > appear or become visible ariseOE to come in (also to, on, etc.) placec1225 'peara1382 appear1382 kithea1400 to show out?a1425 muster?1435 to come forthc1449 to look outa1470 apparish1483 to show forth1487 come1531 to come out?1548 peer1568 to look through1573 glimpse1596 loom1605 rise1615 emicate1657 emike1657 present1664 opena1691 emerge1700 dawn1744 to come down the pike1812 to open out1813 to crop out1849 unmask1858 to come through1868 to show up1879 to come (etc.) out of thin air1932 surface1961 a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 150 These our actors..were all Spirits, and Are melted into Ayre, into thin Ayre. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 499 Satan bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappear'd Into thin Air diffus'd. View more context for this quotation 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 3 The lab'ring Plow-man oft with Horror spies Thin airy Shapes, that o'er the Furrows rise. 1724 R. Welton Substance Christian Faith 120 All the thin and airy delights of the world. c1800 W. Blake Vala v, in Compl. Writings (1966) 305 As plants wither'd by winter..Melt into thin air. 1892 B. F. Westcott Gospel of Life 108 Man cannot live in the thin atmosphere of abstractions. 1904 J. Conrad Nostromo i. i. 4 Vapours that..vanish into thin air. 1907 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 402 Logic is too thin and bloodless a thing to govern life. 1918 L. Strachey Eminent Victorians 223 The Ever Victorious Army..was an ill-disciplined, ill-organised body..constantly on the verge of mutiny..and, at the slightest provocation, melting into thin air. 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August ix. 204 Having apparently materialised out of thin air. 1951 Sport 7 Jan. 16/2 Speed, confidence, shooting ability, all seemed to have vanished into thin air. 1977 ‘E. McBain’ Long Time no See xi. 181 The recurring nightmares hadn't come out of thin air. < as lemmas |
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