Next
Next adverb - At the time or occasion immediately following.
Out of the blue and next are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Out of the blue" instead an adverb "Next".
Out of the blue
Out of the blue adverb - In a way that was not expected.
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Synonyms for Out of the blue
Next and out of the blue are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Next" instead an adverb phrase "Out of the blue".
Both terms in one sentence
- The episode itself is stated to be completely out of the blue, completely different from any other episode of the series and leads into the next one with no explanation.
- Then we go to a commercial, and the next fifteen-minute episode, "Leave the Busting to Us," begins with Ferb stating, out of the blue, that "gladiators were Roman, not Greek."
Source: Ancient Grome - But he's not killed out of the blue — the next time he's seen, he is relatively fine, and the head explosion is never mentioned throughout the rest of the episode.
Source: BLAM / Western Animation
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