vanish/go up/disappear in a puff of smoke
informalto disappear suddenly and completely:
One moment he was standing behind me, the next he had vanished in a puff of smoke.
All his hard work seemed to be going up in a puff of smoke.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Appearing & disappearing
- act
- bubble up
- come up
- conjure
- creep
- disappear off the face of the earth idiom
- do a disappearing/vanishing act idiom
- drain
- emerge
- erupt
- evaporate
- face
- form
- manifestation
- melt
- pop
- puff
- pull
- pull sth up
- woodwork
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