BOLT FROM THE BLUE

Domain	Definition
Literature	Bolt from the Blue (A). There fell a bolt from the blue. A sudden and wholly unexpected catastrophe or event occurred, like a "thunderbolt" from the blue sky, or flash of lightning without warning and wholly unexpected. "Namque Diespiter Igni corusco nubila dividens, Plerumque, per purum tonantes Egit equos volucremque currum. ..." Horace: 1 Ode xxxiv. 5, etc. "On Monday, Dec. 22nd [1890], there fell a bolt from the blue. The morning papers announced that the men were out [on strike]."- Nineteenth Century, February, 1891, p. 246. In this phrase the word "bolt" is used in the popular sense for lightning the Latin fulmen, the French foudre and tonnerre, in English sometimes for an aerolite. Of course, in strict scientific language, a flash of lightning is not a thunderbolt. Metaphorically, it means a sudden and wholly unexpected catastrophe, like a thunderbolt [flash of lightning] from a blue or serene sky. German: Wie ein Blitzstrahl aus blauem Aether. Italian: Comme un fulmine a ciel sereno. Latin: Audiit et coeli genitor de parte serena intonuit haevum. (Virgil: AEneid, ix. 630.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Modern Usage: BOLT FROM THE BLUE

Commercial Usage: BOLT FROM THE BLUE

Expressions: BOLT FROM THE BLUE

Modern Translation: BOLT FROM THE BLUE

Language		Translations for "BOLT FROM THE BLUE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		si rrufe në qiell të kthjellët. (various references)

Arabic		‏مفاجئ (abrupt, at sea, flash, like a bolt from the blue, precipitate, snappy, sudden, surprised, surprising, swift, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked for, unpredicted). (various references)

Finnish		kuin salama kirkkaalta taivaalta (like a bolt from the blue). (various references)

German		ein Blitz aus heiterem Himmel (a bolt from the blue). (various references)

Hebrew		מכ�" מ�"שמים (a bolt from the blue), �"פתע�" �'מור�" (a bolt from the blue, eye opener). (various references)

Hungarian		derült égből villámcsapás (a bolt from the blue). (various references)

Pig Latin		oltbay omfray ethay ueblay

Portuguese		surpresa absoluta (a bolt from the blue). (various references)

Romanian		un trãsnet din senin (a bolt from the blue). (various references)

Russian		гром среди ясного неба. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kao grom iz vedrog neba (blue: out of the blue). (various references)

Spanish		sorpresa absoluta (a bolt from the blue), acontecimiento imprevisto (a bolt from the blue). (various references)

Swedish		blixt från klar himmel. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: BOLT FROM THE BLUE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-b-e-e-f-h-l-l-m-o-o-r-t-t-u"
	-5 letters: bluebottle, letterbomb.
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Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	A Bolt from the Blue (1910)
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Domain	Title
Books	A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays (reference) (more book examples)
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Specialty Definition: BOLT FROM THE BLUE

Expressions using "BOLT FROM THE BLUE": a bolt from the blue ♦ like a bolt from the blue. Additional references.
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