Meaning and origin of ‘Out of the blue’
E.g. Then one day, completely out of the blue, he visited me.
Blue refers to the clear blue sky. Normally a thunderstorm
does not happen when the sky is clear blue. When it happens, that surprises us since it is unexpected. This explains the ‘connection’ to “blue” in the idiom.
According to some English scholars the idiom is a derivation
of an old idiom "a bolt out of the blue" or “a bolt from the blue” which
refers to a completely unexpected and surprising act, like a thunderbolt from a
clear blue sky.
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