Origin of Phrases - V
Vanish Into Thin Air
Shakespeare was believed to be the first person to use the saying "thin air" (actually "thin Ayre") in The Tempest, where he was emphasizing the total disappearance of something. However, a year earlier in 1609, Thomas Dekker wrote in The Guls Horne-book of "Plaudities, and the Breath of the great Beast, which (like the threatenings of two Cowards) vanish all into aire.