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Be off; vanish into thin air.
“Bob and Jonathan, with similar meekness, took their leave and evaporated.”—Dickens: Our Mutual Friend, part i. 6.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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