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spirit away
Idioms and Phrases
Carry off mysteriously or secretly, as in The police found that the documents had been spirited away from the office . This term derives from the noun spirit , in the sense of “a supernatural being such as a ghost.” [Second half of 1600s]Example Sentences
Later on the day it appeared, refuse collectors arrived to spirit away the fridge-freezer.
While the gobies were spirited away to safety, another fish of top concern remained in danger.
Initially, Vallejo police dismissed Quinn’s account of his girlfriend being spirited away by a kidnapper — or kidnappers — who put headphones on him and made him drink a substance that made him sleepy.
Wherever they put the Msaidizi, it’s protected by a juju powerful enough to keep spirits away.”
Touching him, as the tradition goes, is meant to drive evil spirits away.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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