📚 phrase • entry_id 61817
conspicuous by one's absence
Meanings (ES + gloss)
brillar por su ausencia
Raising suspicions by the fact of not being present at an expected place.
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…
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