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Chris -- 2025-05-10
A bolt from the blue refers to a sudden and dramatic event. Even dark and stormy skies often neglect to supply thunderbolts, so a blue sky delivering one is all the more shocking and unexpected.
Unfamiliarity with the expression, and the barely audible third letter, creates a vessel emerging from a hazy sea mist, a far weaker and more ambiguous image.
A foreign office spokesman had described the coup as’ a boat from the blue’!
“A-Arg!” Like a boat from the blue the mysterious man grow and in pain and held his throat, then ran away bumping into Kaname’s shoulder on the way that and …
According to him, “Al Jazeera came like a boat from the blue and was received with skepticisms, today it has not only become a success story …
He was staring like a ghost at the smoke coming out of the coal-pot, his eyes stern and misty, suddenly, like a boat from the blue. He asked …
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“Boat from the blue” seems to be rare, but real.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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The image of a boat dropping from the sky exaggerates but thereby captures the utter surprisingness and (potentially at least) the overwhelming impact of the referenced event showing up. But I agree that the blue ocean works pretty well too.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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