bolt from (out of) the blue
An unexpected event that strikes like lightning from the sky: “He had been with the company for eighteen years; when he was fired, it must have felt like a bolt from the blue.”
Words Nearby bolt from (out of) the blue
- bolt
- bolt-action
- bolt boat
- boltel
- bolter
- bolt from (out of) the blue
- bolthead
- bolt-hole
- bolting cloth
- Bolton
- boltonia
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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