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Phrase
conspicuous by one's absence
- Raising suspicions by the fact of not being present at an expected place.
1965, R. H. Conquest, Horses in the Kitchen: True Tales of Outback Australia, page 37:Occasionally at a bush dance, when the elderly folk were conspicuous by their absence, the M.C. would throw a jazz-garter on the floor, point at some lucky fellow, and shout, 'You have ten seconds to find its mate. A packet of cigarettes if you do'.
The girls would squeal and giggle and start running; […]
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Further reading
- “conspicuous by one's absence”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “conspicuous by its absence”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “be conspicuous by your absence”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “be conspicuous by your absence” (US) / “be conspicuous by your absence” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “conspicuous by one's absence”, in Collins English Dictionary.