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OUT OF THE BLUE means out of nowhere or completely unexpected.

  1. We hadn't seen him in a while, then he just showed up completely OUT OF THE
    BLUE.
  2. It's been sunny all day, and we'd been walking around when it started raining
    completely OUT OF THE BLUE.
  3. He just started screaming totally OUT OF THE BLUE. No one really knew what
    happened.
  4. We're not sure what's going on with Sarah these days. She seems fine and happy,
    and then OUT OF THE BLUE, she just starts crying.
  5. People thought Tom was fired completely OUT OF THE BLUE, but he had been
    slacking off and they had been watching him for a long time.

#vocabulary
TOTALLY - completely
SLACKING OFF - not working hard
URGE - encourage; push
Out of the blue
September 14, 2014
Here's another ad with a cool idiom that's definitely good to
know. The ad urges people to buy a lottery ticket. If they're
lucky, they'll start seeing green (dollars) OUT OF THE BLUE.
Would you buy a lottery ticket if you saw this ad?
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ad photo with the idiom