Then one day out the blue, this person reaches out to you and asks for your help.
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"It came totally out the blue, " the 44-year-old machine setter told BBC News.
But by now, everyone knows to never count out the Blue.
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Thus, the common idea that the Web is crammed full of videos that become serendipitously popular out of the blue turns out to be something of a fairy tale.
The cards mistakenly listed Mayweather fighting out of the red corner and De la Hoya out of the blue.
"The inspiration for this really came out of the blue and to be honest, I didn't expect anything out of it, " he added.
Maybe the concept came to you in a flash, the proverbial bolt out of the blue.
From their perspective, the request came out of the blue without any advance warning and no context.
Southampton City Council's Labour leader, Richard Williams, says the suggestion comes completely out of the blue.
On the Somonte farm, out of the blue, the occupiers are buzzed by men flying powered microlites.
Transport and General Workers Union official Keith Jones said news of the redundancies has come out of the blue and had devastated the workforce.
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They found that gravity waves "break" on the surfaces of planes, just like ocean waves breaking on the beach, causing much of the turbulence that occurs out of the blue in clear air.
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The anxious parents she spoke to told her that the authorities have, out of the blue, insisted that the Albanian papers their Greek-born children have are unacceptable, since they use the Albanian rather than the Greek name for Thessaloniki.
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Labour MP for Hull East Karl Turner said the announcement had "come out of the blue" and was "terrible news for Hull".
Oliver Plunkett church in Lenadoon, west Belfast, Father Martin Magill said the news "came completely out of the blue, I had no idea".
The 61 villas are either perched on the beach or built directly out over the blue lagoon, including the spa suites that overlook the Indian Ocean.
When she next came to New York to make a speech, the British consulate called me out of the blue, and invited me to meet her at the Plaza for a photograph.
That could happen again, with the economic equivalent of an asteroid coming out of the blue.
Yet, on the other hand, they must also be ready for the mayhem that could ensue if, out of the blue, some radical (disruptive) technology were suddenly to rewrite the rules and render their company irrelevant.
The deal was something of a shot out of the blue when it was announced Feb. 14 (at least for everyone but the options trader who made a big bullish bet on Heinz the day before).
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Lisburn councillor Stephen Martin said the news had "come as a bolt out of the blue".
Barry Sanders was on the cover in 2000, only to retire out of the blue right before the season started.
Despite this fine form, being named in England's provisional 30-man squad for the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa came out of the blue.
Prospect, the union for workers in the defence industry, said it was angry about the decision, which it claimed had come "out of the blue".
The call from Number 10 to artist Ben Eine came out of the blue.
They added that the proposals, which they described as "a bolt out of the blue", would hurt small businesses and employee share-ownership schemes, as well as discouraging risk-taking by venture capital firms vital to economic growth.
While Charlie would have us believe that he was a blessing bestowed on us from Mars, at the minimum, many others believe he just showed up out of the blue and now we have to suffer.
Redundant worker Lanza Martineta said the news he was losing his job came as a "bolt out of the blue".
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