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out of the blue

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1. The chairman resigned out of the blue.
2. The news came out of the blue.
3. He arrived quite out of the blue.
4. I had a call from James out of the blue.
5. It was like a bolt out of the blue.
6. Sometimes the most inspired ideas seem to just come from out of the blue.
7. The blue of her eyes stands out against her rather dark skin.
8. I was about to leave when Mary appeared out of the blue.
9. Only if there's a cancellation, and that would be a bolt out of the blue.
10. The section chief said out of the blue: "Women and meat, I like them a little rotten".
11. This is out of the blue, but has everybody once felt 'looked down upon by young folk'?
12. We were having a quiet supper when out of the blue my mother announced she was going back to school.
13. The one that just yesterday, said to be guiding, leading- Finds himself, out of the blue, lying stiff in a wooden box, and the ones around, (after) realising that he is worthless, burnt him in a furnace.
14. When a thunderstorm suddenly came out of the blue, she jumped abruptly out of the hammock and ran headlong into the house where she stopped short, remembering suddenly that she had no lightning rod, and because she realized at once that this sudden onrush of a thunderstorm could end her life before she could say Jack Robinson, she became sore afraid.
15. Including the grant for the ‘blue laser’ project carried out by the University of Würzburg.