out of nowhere

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Idioms and Phrases

Suddenly, unexpectedly, as in That anonymous letter turned up out of nowhere . It is often put as come out of nowhere , as in Their team came out of nowhere and won the state championship . This term uses out of in the sense of “from,” and nowhere in the sense of “an unknown place.” For a synonym, see out of a clear blue sky .

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Patients end up in the ER because they were in a car accident, had a heart attack or stroke, suffered from some pathogen that hit them out of nowhere or had been lurking in their systems unnoticed and undiagnosed until they spiked a fever or passed out or started coughing up blood and couldn’t stop, or somebody shot them or they shot themselves.

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That is, until she pops up with a perfect insult out of nowhere, like when she says her friend Zack’s hair “still looks like a LEGO,” a thought I’d already had many times myself as I measured the distance between his hairline and his browline with two fingers.

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But it did not come out of nowhere.

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It’s a cackle-worthy bit of dialogue, thrown out of nowhere so Cronenberg can establish a baseline for the film’s silliness.

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"That's a bottleneck and there's nothing they can do, unless they change their stance on immigration entirely. You can't just magic PhDs out of nowhere."

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