2024-05-12
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Welcome to the a to Z english podcast.
My name is Jack, and I'm here with my co host, Sochil.
And today we are in the vocabulary spotlight and Sochil.
I've got three idioms that I think are pretty common.
I hear people use these quite often, and so I'm gonna just tell you the idiom.
You kind of explain what it means, and then we'll give a couple examples like we usually do.
The first one is out of the blue.
Out of blue?
Out of the blue means it happens suddenly and unexpectedly.
So let's say you're feeling fine.
One day you're perfectly healthy, and then the next day you came down with a cold, and all the symptoms just hit you at once.
You're like collapsed in bed, runny nose, flu, aching body.
Everything just hit you at once.
It wasn't gradual.