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词汇 out-of-thin-air
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out of thin air


idiom
from nothing: 凭空
I can't come up with €10,000 out of thin air.我不能凭空拿出1万欧元。
They built the cell phone industry out of thin air in the mid-1980s.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not expected or planned
abrupt end
abrupt halt
abruptly
abruptness
ad hoc
inadvertence
inadvertency
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spirit
spontaneity
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untimely
untoward
unwilled
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out of thin air | American Dictionary


out of thin air


idiom
from nowhere or from nothing:
She seemed to appear out of thin air.

Examples of out of thin air


out of thin air
Neither initial creation of a blueprint nor the actual production of an abatement firm comes outofthinair as discussed below.
But it is impossible to explain how prokaryotes cells evolved into eukaryotic cells (without creating intermediary organisms outofthinair).
Others see law's ability to construct authority outofthinair as a trait to be admired rather than a dangerous masquerade.
Though the rules are syntax directed, they frequently conjure up monotypes outofthinair, in this case the for the type of the result.
Karkhandars thus were not able to create outofthinair precisely the kind of work force that they might have wished for.
This is useful reading for academics : it is about a man who made his reputation outofthinair.
It seems to have been plucked outofthinair.
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They will not be plucked outofthinair.
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I am sure that it was not plucked outofthinair.
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It has been suggested that that figure was plucked outofthinair, but that is not true.
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Has it been conjured outofthinair with no apparent rationale, as are so many dates that appear before us?
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One cannot just pluck a statistic outofthinair.
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That policy has not come outofthinair.
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It did not come outofthinair.
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Does he think that the money comes outofthinair?
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