Meaning of out of the blue | Babel Free
/aʊt ɒv ðə bluː/Definitions
Unexpectedly; without warning or preparation.
idiomatic
Equivalents
Čeština
zčistajasna
Suomi
yllättäen
한국어
갑자기
Українська
як грім серед ясного неба
Tiếng Việt
đang không
Examples
“After I hadn’t heard from her in six months, she called me out of the blue to meet for lunch.”
“I really can't understand how something like this could simply pop up out of the blue.”
“I deckhanded on a fish boat for four years and knew no fisherman likes to be called out of the blue and have his numbers demanded!”
“Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering a bullet of a left foot shot out of the blue and into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesny's net with the Pole grasping at thin air.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.