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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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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.
From out of the blue, a posse of divers with flashguns blazing descends on the scene.
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!
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.
In the winter of 1999 she received a phone call out of the blue from someone looking for an artist to paint a custom hex sign for a new barn.
Suddenly out of the blue my 35 kg kelpie Jessica bolts from around the other side of the house nearly knocking me of my feet.

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