- Nature abhors a vacuum
- This idiom is used to express the idea that empty or unfilled spaces are unnatural as they go against the laws of nature and physics.
Dictionary of English idioms . He Heba Abdelraheim Alkady . 2014.
Nature abhors a vacuum
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