burst like a bubble

Then suddenly their whole establishment had burst like a bubble.

All their plans and hopes burst like a bubble!

Abruptly the chill burst like a bubble, and he paused to catch his breath.

But everything had burst like a bubble.

What if this whole marvellous enchantment bursts like a bubble in the cold of a winter on the Eastern seaboard?

Then the globe burst like a bubble.

My happiness burst like a bubble.

This chap'll burst like a bubble presently.

Suddenly the small figure burst like a bubble, and he felt something flow into him - from the bursting - some little portion of his lost strength.

Then it bursts like a bubble, or is applied only to thieves, crooks and deserters instead of those who fought in the war and suffered.

According to historian John Toland National Socialism "burst like a bubble" without its leader.

But if what that devil dreams were true, I should not be--I should burst like a bubble and be gone.

Then he was in a tube, a glasshouse, behind the curtain of the breaking wave, shooting the curl, and his apprehension burst like a bubble and was no more.

And when he did, he was going to-- The erotic image he conjured in his head burst like a bubble when he rounded the house and saw Keeley's mother kneeling at the flower bed.

It's like, having dived into a pool, floating back up towards the surface again; that sound, a sort of bubbling white noise, slowly altering in pitch from very low to high, and bursting like a bubble itself to - Conversation, a woman laughing.

It needed only a little hardihood and a face of brass, and the single fragile witness against Meurig might burst like a bubble, and leave nothing but the scattered dew of suspicion, like the moisture a bubble leaves on the hand.

The Jen-Jen Lin Dance Theater will present "Fading Like a Shadow, Bursting Like a Bubble" at 8 P.M. on Friday and Saturday at the Austin Arts Center, at Trinity College, in Hartford.

Now he had no sooner laid hand upon the calabash than that which he handled, and that which he saw and stood on, burst like a bubble and was gone; and night closed upon him, and the waters, and the meshes of the net; and he wallowed there like a fish.