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Definition of Out of thin air
1. Adverb. Without warning. "Your cousin arrived out of thin air"
Definition of Out of thin air
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) from non-existent, unknown or hidden resources ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Out Of Thin Air
Literary usage of Out of thin air
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"... to circulate at all, to keep on doling them out, automatically creating a
hundred new ones out of thin air every time a player logged in for the day. ..."
2. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1902)
"... that is just as certain as anything can be, and if you don't feed that tree
in the ground, I assure you it will not get food out of thin air. ..."
3. Applied Psychology ...: A Series of Twelve Volumes on the Application of by Warren Hilton, Society of Applied Psychology (1914)
"... not mean that gold dollars and automobiles will be materialized out of thin
air before your very eyes. They mean that through faith in the realization ..."
4. Lightness: the Inevitable Renaissance of Minimum Energy Structures by Adriaan Beukers, Ed van Hinte (2005)
"'One tends to overlook the efficiency FLYING BY TENSION Many an ambitious balloon
has fallen out of thin air lately. The French brothers Montgolfier made ..."
5. Bulletin of the American Library Association by American Library Association (1914)
"Reference work can not be conjured out of thin air. In the best reference work
there are many times when one book is not as good as any other. ..."
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