what does this mean ? (out of the blue)?

Answer 1

its said when something happens without any previous warning, unexpectedly appears from now where or alert!

Answer 2

The full version is "out of a clear blue sky". It means something unexpected, with nothing to indicate it's going to happen.

Imagine if the sky was blue and cloudless and it suddenly began to rain! That's the idea. When something happens "out of the blue" there's no warning.

Answer 3

It refers to a random event or surprise. It comes from "out of the wide blue yonder", which is an old fashioned way of saying "out of a clear blue sky". If you imagine a clear, blue sky, and something unexpected, like a flock of birds, or ufo, or anything else that you don't expect suddenly appears, that is where the saying finds its origins.

Answer 4

It means completely unexpectedly, without warning.

'The blue' part means a blue sky, clear and empty.

Answer 5

My idiom dictionary related the expression to the blue-ish light of a thunder,

it means very sudden, unexpected,

Answer 6

Something happens unexpectedly. But why doe's it come out of the colour blue? Is it because it rhymes.

Answer 7

Basically it means something that happens unexpectedly. Like it just fell from the sky.

Answer 8

if something happens out of the blue then it happens randomly without warning and unexpectedly...

Answer 9

It means it is a phenomenon. Something that doesn't usually happen. A rarity, unusual, unexpected, or unforeseen.

Answer 10

Something unexpected or random.