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1. (adverb) unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for, out of the blue(p)
not anticipated
"unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"- H.W.Glidden; "unforeseen circumstances"; "a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy"; "like a bolt out of the blue"

2. (adverb) unexpectedly, out of the blue
in a way that was not expected
"her brother showed up at the wedding out of the blue"

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: without warning He arrived out of the blue, without phoning first.
Afrikaans: uit die bloute	Arabic: فَجْأه، على غَيْرِ انتِظا	Bulgarian: изведнъж
Brazilian: de surpresa	Czech: zčista jasna, znenadání	German: aus heiterem Himmel
Danish: uden varsel	Greek: απροειδοποίητα, ξαφνικά	Spanish: como caído del cielo, de
Estonian: nagu välk selgest taevast	Farsi: ناگهان؛ غیرمنتظره	Finnish: äkkiarvaamatta
French: à l'improviste	Hebrew: פִּתְאוֹם	Hindi: बिना कोई खोज-खबर दिए
Croatian: iznenada	Hungarian: hirtelen	Indonesian: tiba-tiba
Icelandic: úr heiðskíru lofti, öllum	Italian: all'improvviso	Japanese: 出し抜けに
Korean: 불시에	Lithuanian: kaip perkūnas iš giedro d	Latvian: pēkšņi; bez brīdinājuma
Malay: tiba-tiba datang	Dutch: onverwacht	Norwegian: uten varsel
Polish: niespodziewanie, ni stąd	Persian: ناگهان؛ غیرمنتظره	Pashto: نا څاپه ، غیرمتراقبه
Portuguese: de surpresa	Romanian: pe neaşteptate	Russian: внезапно, без предупрежде
Slovak: znenazdania	Slovenian: kar na lepem	Serbian: iznenada
Swedish: utan förvarning, helt ovä	Thai: ไม่ได้บอกล่วงหน้า	Turkish: ansızın, beklenmedik bir
Taiwanese: 突然地	Ukrainian: несподівано; як грім з не	Urdu: اچانک ، دفعۃً
Vietnamese: hoàn toàn bất ngờ	Chinese: 突然地
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'out of the blue' - Nearby Entries
out of service out of sight out of stock out of the blue out of the question out-of-the-box thinking out-of-the-way

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