from/out of nowhere
B2 very suddenly and unexpectedly:
She said her attacker seemed to come out of nowhere.
figurative The team has come from nowhere (= from a very bad position) to win football's biggest prize.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not expected or planned
- ad hoc
- ad hocism
- ad hockery
- ad lib
- ad-lib
- adventitious
- against (all) the odds/against all odds idiom
- explosive
- it's just one of those things idiom
- just like that idiom
- make sth up as you go along idiom
- muddle
- muddle along
- rude
- spur
- unawares
- undreamed of
- unexpected
- unforeseen
- unintended
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