do a disappearing act
do a vanishing act

They just didn't figure on him doing a disappearing act, that's all.

In case you didn't know it, islands sometimes do a disappearing act.

Who cares about the rest of the world doing a disappearing act?

Eventually it was time for a visitor to do a disappearing act and go back to the office.

Covey did a disappearing act at the end of the summer.

Nancy's done a disappearing act, and I'm stranded here without any clothes!

Surprisingly, when menus are opened, ducks do a disappearing act.

The man resorted to anger, or did a disappearing act, every time it looked like something personal was about to spring up between them.

Then, he did a disappearing act involving the "Microwave of Death".

But Kenny did a disappearing act on her.

But, for some women, it certainly can feel like it, when their insecurities suddenly do a disappearing act.

The environmental dimension continues to do a disappearing act at the crucial moments where existing practice and instruments are concerned.

Unfortunately, last week, the dip-buyers did a disappearing act.

Here, the management’s strategy was to do a disappearing act, leaving me with ample time to stew on the team’s lacklustre performance.

The more compassionate of the cleaners does a disappearing act, secure in the knowledge that his secret remains safe.

By then, however, Mr Wang appeared to have done a disappearing act.

March, she did a disappearing act and a short time later surfaced in Santa Teresa.

Just a bad girl who robs her old grandfather of his money, gets away with his furniture, too, and does a disappearing act.

I aim to win it back, and I don't want to see it do a disappearing act before the day of the race.

He then did a disappearing act himself, leaving me to the mocking tones of the camera crew in my earpiece.

But even before the current row I was aware that Sir Fred had done a disappearing act.

"Christ, everyone's doing a disappearing act," he muttered.

You want to tell me how Crask and Sadler could do a disappearing act in the middle of a hundred people?

Mo's done a disappearing act," I said. "

Garbage, so long a permanent fixture of the city's roads that the sloppiness was a national embarrassment, has done a disappearing act.

But at least this father did not do a vanishing act and he made her an allowance of 4/- a week to support his child.

A city's material culture is doing a vanishing act.

Check out his thick thatch - It was about to do a vanishing act.

Some borders did a vanishing act, like those within the European Union.

Fatso put her number out, and that was why she did a vanishing act and lost herself in the city.

She did a vanishing act before the rat-pack arrived and, by the time she came back, the story was dead.

But the garlic and ginger had done a vanishing act, and the beans lacked distinct flavor.

Roast duckling Bigarade was a well-browned and juicy half duck, but the sauce had done a vanishing act.

Yes..." "He's done a vanishing act.

"Good thing the Lizards haven't figured out prison uni- forms; they'd have made it harder for us to do a vanishing act with you," Goldfarb said as he, too, changed.

I never figured I'd end up out back of God's behind, and I sure as hell didn't plan on the goddamned Confederation doing a vanishing act on me,' Garvin said. '

What used to be the company's core, its consumer long-distance telephone business, seems to be doing a vanishing act, shrinking by almost 20 percent a year - although it can boast of gross profit margins exceeding 30 percent.

If this was not enough, my cameraman did a vanishing act just a day prior to the beginning of the shoot of the movie - I had to pull my personal contacts to rope in Suhas Gujarathi at the last minute"."