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bolt from (out of) the blue

Cultural

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.”

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It was a bolt from out of the blue.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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