out of the blue

English

Adverb

out of the blue

1. (idiomatic) unexpectedly; without warning or preparation

   After I hadn’t heard from her in six months, she called me out of the blue to meet for lunch.

   I really can't understand how something like this could simply pop up out of the blue.

Translations

unexpectedly

• Finnish: yllättäen, kuin salama kirkkaalta taivaalta (like a lightning bolt out of a clear sky)
• French: comme un cheveu sur la soupe (fr) (like a hair in the soup), comme un chien dans un jeu de quilles (fr) (like a dog in a bowling game)
• German: Aus heiterem Himmel (de) (from clear sky)
• Icelandic: (like thunder from a clear sky) eins og þruma úr heiðskíru lofti (is), (like the devil from the sheep's leg) eins og skrattinn úr sauðaleggnum (is), (as a hard blow) sem reiðarslag (is), (like thunder from a blue sky) eins og þruma úr heiðríkju (is), öllum að óvörum (is)
• Italian: di punto in bianco (it) (all of a sudden), come un fulmine a ciel sereno (it) (like a thunder in a clear sky)
• Latin: inexspectate (la)

• Lithuanian: lyg perkūnas iš giedro dangaus (like a thunder in the clear sky)
• Norwegian: ut av det blå (no), som lyn fra klar himmel (no)
• Polish: jak grom z jasnego nieba (pl) (like a thunder from the clear sky)
• Portuguese: do nada (pt) (out of nowhere), da cartola (pt) (out of the top hat)
• Russian: как гром среди ясного неба (like a thunder in the clear sky), как снег на голову (like snow onto the head)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏о гро̑м из ве̏дра не̏ба (sh) (like a thunder from the clear sky)

  Roman: kȁo grȏm iz vȅdra nȅba (sh)

• Spanish: de la nada (es), de repente (es)
• Swedish: som en blixt ifrån klar himmel (like a lightning bolt out of a clear sky)

See also

Wikipedia

• out of nowhere
• thin air
• bolt from the blue