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do a disappearing act



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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]

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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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