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Definition of Out of the blue
1. Adverb. In a way that was not expected. "Her brother showed up at the wedding out of the blue"
2. Adjective. Not anticipated. "Like a bolt out of the blue"
Definition of Out of the blue
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) unexpectedly; without warning or preparation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Out Of The Blue
Literary usage of Out of the blue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Constantinople, Old and New by Harrison Griswold Dwight (1915)
"... toward the Golden Gate A last marble tower stands superbly out of the blue
and the Marmora, till a last marble tower stands superbly out of the blue. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1857)
"... but refusing to pass out of the blue into the other colours. It was plain that
the spot belonged both to the eye and to the blue part of the spectrum. ..."
3. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"OUT OF THE SOUTH A migrant song-bird I, out of the blue, between the sea and the
sky, Landward blown on bright, untiring wings; Out of the South I fly, ..."
4. The Seventh Report from the Select Committee of the House of Assembly of by William Lyon Mackenzie (1835)
"V>5, Executive Councillor £111, Commissioner for Bale of Clergy Reserves £500
1721 Thomas Merritt, [name left out of the Blue Book for 34. ..."
5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"To the south, broadside on, the white wall of the Olympics rose out of the blue
water. Black clouds were gathering about Mount Olympus in enormous ..."
6. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"out of the blue grass. Dunlap, L. pa. 75o. Transylvania ptg. со., Lexington, Ky.
Out of the briars. Newton, AH $1.25. AME Book concern, 631 Pine st., Phil. ..."
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