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bolt from the blue

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a bolt from the blue
something that you do not expect to happen and that surprises you very much. The news that they had got married was a bolt from the blue. He seemed to be very happy in his job, so his resignation came as a bolt out of the blue.
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Above him, falling upon him like a bolt from the blue, was a winged hawk unthinkably vaster than the one he had encountered.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
In an instant like a bolt from the blue, like a thunderbolt from nowhere, that beautiful and defiant body had been dashed down the open well of the lift to death at the bottom.
The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
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