out of the blue | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Unexpectedly; withoutwarningorpreparation.After I hadn’t heard from her in six months, she called meout of the blueto meet for lunch.I really can't understand how something like this could simply pop upout of the blue.2004, Stephen Hume,A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming,→ISBN, page210:I deckhanded on a fish boat for four years and knew no fisherman likes to be calledout of the blueand have his numbers demanded!2011January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, inBBC‎[1]:Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering a bullet of a left foot shotout of the blueand into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesny's net with the Pole grasping at thin air.

Examples:

EN: Heiji appears out of the blue.
ES: Heiji aparece inesperadamente.
EN: This is out of the blue, André.
ES: Esto es inesperado, André.
EN: # Now, look here, my pals and all you little gals # # don't pretend you'll never fall in love # # 'cause love strikes you down like lightning # # out of the blue above #
ES: ♪ Mirad aquí, amigos y todas vosotras, chicas ♪ ♪ No creáis que nunca os enamorareis ♪ ♪ Porque el amor te golpea como un rayo ♪
EN: Oh you literally arrived out of the blue, huh?
ES: Literalmente has llegado como caído del cielo.
EN: Can't you just see everyone when we pop in out of the blue?
ES: ¿Puedes imaginarte a todos cuando aparezcamos de pronto?
EN: Then I found you it was love from the start and I traded my heart for an angel from out of the blue.
ES: ♪ Y entonces te encontré ♪ ♪ Fue amor desde el principio, y yo cambié mi corazón ♪ Por un ángel de repente ♪
EN: It was completely out of the blue.
ES: Fue algo completamente inesperado.
EN: Like a bolt out of the blue Fate steps in
ES: Como caído del cielo, el futuro llegará
EN: She's just something out of the blue.
ES: Es una caja de sorpresas.
EN: ♪ It comes right out of the blue ♪
ES: Aparece cuando menos te lo esperas
ES: Aparece cuando menos te lo esperas
ES: Aparece cuando menos te lo esperas
EN: Has pick ed you out of the blue
ES: Te ha escogido de improviso
EN: Oh, it's pointless to tell the girls all this out of the blue.
ES: No sirve de nada contarles a las chicas todo esto de la nada.
EN: No more of this nonsense of hearing voices out of the blue. And going from chills to fever in the same day.
ES: Ya nada de las tonterías de oír voces... ni de pasar de escalofríos a fiebre en el mismo día.
EN: Okay, here I come from out of the blue.
ES: "Muy bien, aquí estoy yo de sopetón."
EN: And along comes that fool who, out of the blue, proposes to marry you, but remember... I too wanted only you when I saw you for the first time.
ES: Y es un éxito que te proponga, así, de buenas a primera, convertirse en tu mujer, pero acuérdate... yo también, cuando te vi sólo quise estar contigo.

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