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like a bolt from the blue

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like a bolt from the blue also like a bolt out of the blue
suddenly and unexpectedly Quinn's announcement that he is quitting came like a bolt from the blue.
Etymology: based on the idea of a bolt (flash) of lightning that comes suddenly from the sky
See also: blue, bolt, like


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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.
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.
 
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