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out of a clear blue sky



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Also, out of the blue . Without warning, suddenly, as in Her offer to help us with the fundraising came out of a clear blue sky , or We got a check from Aunt Ruby out of the blue . These metaphoric terms allude to something dropping unexpectedly from the sky. [Late 1800s] Also see out of nowhere .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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