וְהַיֶּלֶד אֵינֶנּוּ

ביטוי (אנגלית)

The bird has flown

הגדרה (אנגלית)

By metaphor: disappeared. Gone missing.

("And he returned to his brother and said, The child is not here, and I am here; I am coming" - initially to this (Reuven later, who discovered that Joseph had been sold by his brother), and then: "The table is set, and there is wine, and everything is prepared and ready for the feast, but the child is not here" - Agnon/ These and These, From Heaven, 138)