| 单词 | out of a clear sky |
| 释义 | > as lemmasout of a clear (blue) sky P3. out of a clear (blue) sky and variants: without warning, completely unexpectedly. Cf. out of the blue at blue adj. and n. Phrases 5b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [adverb] > without warning on, in, or at unwarec1070 unwarec1100 unwaresa1122 uniwaresa1200 unwarelyc1200 on uniware1297 unwarneda1325 unadvised1390 unbewares1483 unbeware1489 unwarnishedly1513 unawarnistly1533 unadvisedlyc1535 unawares1535 at unwaresa1547 unwarnedly1563 at unawares1564 unwarily1569 at unaware1598 unaware1667 of all things1778 out of a clear (blue) sky1875 out of the blue1879 unawaredly1895 1836 Mississippi Free Trader & Natchez Gaz. 22 July The late veto of President Jackson..was like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky. 1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary v. iii. 264 So from a clear sky falls the thunderbolt! 1903 P. G. Wodehouse Tales of St. Austin's 2 To spring an examination on you in the middle of the term out of a blue sky, as it were, was underhand and unsportsmanlike. 1958 G. Greene Our Man in Havana iii. ii. 115 She's had two unhappy coups de foudre herself. They came quite suddenly, out of a clear sky. 2010 P. Murray Skippy Dies 29 You don't introduce sex into the conversation, out of a clear blue sky, and then just banish it. < as lemmas |
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