disappear without (a) trace
disappear without (a) trace
1. To disappear without any indication to one's or something's whereabouts. Police have been searching for two weeks to find a young girl who disappeared without trace from her home in Rochester. Authorities are puzzled by the navy submarine that seemingly disappeared without a trace last Thursday.
2. To be forgotten about by the population as a whole, especially after being very popular. The digital pets fad took the world by storm in the late 1990s, but disappeared without a trace after a few years.
See also: disappear, trace, without
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- trace
- vanish without (a) trace
- be replaced by (someone or something)
- be replaced with (someone or something)
- replace
- another nail in the coffin
- another nail in (one's) coffin
- coffin
- leave (something) to luck
- leave to chance