out of the clear blue sky

Joanne Thornton said Brown “just picked someone out of the clear blue sky to kill” when he shot Henderson, her “little cousin.”

“Out of the clear blue sky he said, ‘Now watch this play,’” Withers recalled.

“It’s less of an event than you might think because it hasn’t come out of the clear blue sky, it’s just come in the midst of other confusion,” said Charles Geisst, a market historian and emeritus professor of finance at Manhattan College.

“All of a sudden here comes this parade out of the clear blue sky. Just amazing.”

"And now we can't even get a QFR answered and out of the clear blue sky the first thing we're investigating is the exact thing that the Trump campaign wants us to investigate. The only time we ask for anything from this department is when it's a political errand," Whitehouse said, raising his voice.