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Out of the Blue

What it means

Arriving with no warning at all, from a direction nobody thought to watch.

Where it comes from

The longer form is a bolt out of the blue, lightning from a clear sky. Those strikes are real. A bolt can travel miles from its storm cloud and land in sunshine.

The puzzle it came from

Out of the Blue was the answer to the Phrasicle of June 22, 2025. The clue read ____ of the ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.

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Phrasicle: Out of the Blue

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