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What does out of the blue mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word out of the blue? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. (idiomatic) unexpectedly; without warning or preparation
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When she first told me she was pregnant she didn't take my calls for ages then rang out of the blue and said she was aborting.
On one dive, as we drifted along with the current, passing the school of hammerheads, an 8m whale shark came out of the blue towards us.
On August 15, 1971, more or less out of the blue, President Nixon declared a freeze on wages and prices.
But imagine being in a situation where out of the blue, your heart starts racing so fast that it can't pump blood around your body properly.
It is a bit weird to phone her up out of the blue and just ask her out, unless you look like Brad Pitt that is!
He says he received no prior warning from the local authority and that the news was a bolt out of the blue.

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