Usually means: Unexpectedly, without any prior warning.
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  1. out of the blue: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. out of the blue: Merriam-Webster
  3. out of the blue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. out of the blue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. out of the blue: Vocabulary.com
  6. out of the blue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. out of the blue: Wiktionary
  8. out of the blue: Dictionary.com
  9. Out Of The Blue, Out of the Blue (Alison Brown album), Out of the Blue (American band), Out of the Blue (Anne Kirkpatrick album), Out of the Blue (Blue Mitchell album), Out of the Blue (British band), Out of the Blue (David Gilmour song), Out of the Blue (Debbie Gibson album), Out of the Blue (Debbie Gibson song), Out of the Blue (Delta Goodrem song), Out of the Blue (Donnie Iris album), Out of the Blue (EP), Out of the Blue (Ferry Corsten album), Out of the Blue (Oxford University), Out of the Blue (Sonny Red album), Out of the Blue (band), Out of the Blue (film), Out of the Blue, Out of the blue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. out of the blue: Rhymezone
  11. out of the blue: FreeDictionary.org
  12. out of the blue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Out Of The Blue: A to Z list of the most popular idioms
  14. out of the blue: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. out of the blue: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. out of the blue: Idioms

Definitions from Wikipedia (Out of the Blue)

noun:  the seventh studio album by the British rock group Electric Light Orchestra, released on 24 October 1977 in the United States and four days after in the UK on 28 October.
noun:  (released in Canada as No Looking Back) a 1980 drama film directed by Dennis Hopper, and starring Linda Manz, Hopper, Sharon Farrell, Don Gordon, and Raymond Burr.
noun:  an American teen sitcom that ran in syndication from September 16, 1995, to February 1996.
noun:  an American fantasy sitcom that aired on ABC during the fall of 1979.
noun:  the debut of Claudia Carawan, and derives its sound from several styles including soul, old school R&B, reggae and jazz.
noun:  a lower-voice a cappella group from the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, England.
noun:  "Out of the Blue" is a song written by Delta Goodrem and Guy Chambers, produced by Chambers, Richard Flack, and Steve Power for Goodrem's second studio album, Mistaken Identity.
noun:  the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Debbie Gibson, released on August 18, 1987, by Atlantic Records.
noun:  "Out of the Blue" is a song by American singer-songwriter-actress Debbie Gibson, and is the title track of her debut studio album Out of the Blue.
noun:  a 2006 New Zealand crime drama film directed by Robert Sarkies and starring Karl Urban.
noun:  the sixth album by American rock singer Donnie Iris, released in 1992.The Unofficial Donnie Iris Site – Out Of The Blue The album is partly a 'best-of' collection as it consists of seven previously released tracks and six new songs ("Love Whispers," "On Our Way to Paradise," "Be Still My Heart," "Stray Cat," "The Mad Siberian" and "Temptation").allmusic.com-Out of the Blue These six tracks were originally recorded for the band's unreleased 1986 album Cruise Control, and were remixed for this release.
noun:  a 2003 feature-length documentary film on the UFO phenomenon which premiered on television on the Sci Fi Channel on June 24, 2003.
noun:  an Australian serial drama commissioned by the BBC, and produced by Australia's Southern Star Entertainment.
noun:  a 1947 American screwball comedy film based on the short story by Vera Caspary who also co-wrote the screenplay.
noun:  a British television crime drama series, set and filmed in Sheffield, and broadcast on BBC One between 23 May 1995, and 9 September 1996.
noun:  Out of the Blue, also known as OTB, was an American jazz ensemble founded by Blue Note Records in the 1980s as a showcase for the label's younger musicians.
noun:  album by American banjoist Alison Brown, released in 1998.
noun:  an album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Red recorded on December 5, 1959 and January 23, 1960 and released on Blue Note in 1960.Blue Note discography accessed October 19, 2010
noun:  an album led by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded and released in 1959 on the Riverside label.
noun:  a 1931 British musical film directed by Gene Gerrard and starring Gerrard, Jessie Matthews and Kay Hammond.
noun:  (sometimes abbreviated as OOTB, pronounced OOT-Buh) a co-ed a cappella group from Yale University.
noun:  a studio album by Dutch DJ and record producer Ferry Corsten, then known by his moniker System F.
noun:  a 2013 Italian comedy film written and directed by Edoardo Leo, who also stars in the film.
noun:  a four-track extended play by Australian hard rock band, the Angels, released in October 1979.
noun:  a South Australian television series which promotes the Australian seafood industry by combining travelogue and cooking show formats.
noun:  the seventh studio album released by Australian country music singer Anne Kirkpatrick.
noun:  the ninth studio album by English pop rock group Mike + The Mechanics that was released on 5 April 2019 by BMG.
noun:  a 2022 American thriller film written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Diane Kruger and Ray Nicholson.
noun:  Out of the Blue: The Inside Story of the Unexpected Rise and Rapid Fall of Liz Truss is a non-fiction book about the British politician Liz Truss, written by Harry Cole and James Heale, published as an ebook on 1 November 2022 and in print and audio on 24 November.
noun:  "Out of the Blue" is a 1999 trance single by Dutch DJ Ferry Corsten, under the alias of System F. It received an original release in the Netherlands under Corsten's own record label, Tsunami, and a full release in the UK with Essential Recordings.
noun:  the debut studio album by American singer and season 14 winner of The Voice Brynn Cartelli.
noun:  a public art installation located at 900 S and 1100 E in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.


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