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fade away

Idioms  

  1. see fade out, def. 2.

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Hours of work and hours of play Fade away Into one immense Inane.

From Poems by Henley, William Ernest

All our hunting-grounds must vanish, All our lodges fall before them, All our customs and traditions, All our happy life of freedom, Fade away like smoke before them.

From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry

Fade away, I think, like the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, leaving at the last not a grin but a scowl behind them.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

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