like a bolt from the blue
like a bolt out of the blue

And then it hit her like a bolt from the blue.

First, that for the teachers this decision came like a bolt from the blue.

Inspiration hit me like a bolt from the blue on the way home.

The Mishcon job came like a bolt from the blue.

The assault on the bridges must, therefore, come like a bolt from the blue.

It came as a complete shock, like a bolt from the blue, that revealed his power, but now everything was in place.

Like a bolt from the blue, the idea struck!

But for many longtime members, the decision came like a bolt from the blue - and a cruel one at that.

Pansy's husband was struck down as if like a bolt from the blue.

You cannot simply act as if the Commission suddenly received this knowledge in May like a bolt from the blue!

This order came like a bolt from the blue and I'm very grateful for it.'

Like a bolt from the blue, like something that might happen on the road to Damascus.

He homed in on the red-cloaked figure like a bolt from the blue.

It was simply that the beam of universal happiness had fallen upon me like a bolt from the blue.

As he weighed this possibility in his mind, the ramifications of it struck him like a bolt from the blue.

A Clothes Show insider said: 'This has come like a bolt from the blue.

The builder said: "I can't believe what I'm hearing it's like a bolt from the blue.

Like a bolt from the blue it was suddenly clear to Toffner that he had walked right into a blunt, wide-open trap.

Smith, who had been reassured earlier of the Vorster government's support, said later that the decision had struck him "like a bolt from the blue".

It had come like a bolt from the blue and had left them as defenseless as would a lightning flash.

Rather than arising like a bolt from the blue, however, they often result from self-inflicted injuries after missteps in political or economic policy.

"As if like a bolt from the blue, the clouds were wrenched apart, and the sun at its zenith appeared in all its splendor.

Above him, falling upon him like a bolt from the blue, was a winged hawk unthinkably vaster than the one he had encountered.

The way he gained 'the word that sustains the weary' was not like a bolt from the blue, but through patiently listening to God morning by morning.

She had, quite literally, entered his life and his heart like a bolt from the blue but she was . . . Brickman's sister!