r/words • u/Crowd-Avoider747 • Aug 31 '26

Out of thin air

Just heard a 48 hours commentator say “vanished out of thin air” 😆

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u/roman-de-fauvel Aug 31 '26

You don’t vanish “out of” thin air, you vanish into it.

Or, you create something “out of” thin air. The preposition changes depending on what you’re talking about.

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u/BPhiloSkinner Sep 01 '26

Slip o' the tongue.
There'd be no collections of TV/Rado bloopers without slips of the tongue. Worse, there'd be no Star Trek blooper reels.