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out of the blue

adverb as in unpredicted

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But Lucy’s death was not out of the blue.

From BBC

“When this business of film and television started for me, it came completely out of the blue,” he says.

"Nothing's better than reaching out to that band and literally saying, out of the blue, 'hey, I want to put you in the game this year'," he said.

From BBC

The loss of the highly-rated Jones came "out of the blue" and was "deeply disappointing", according to Rugby Football Union chief executive Bill Sweeney.

From BBC

And then, out of the blue, I get a call from my landlord: She’s selling the duplex, and we may have to move.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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