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all of a sudden



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Idioms and Phrases

Entirely without warning, abruptly, as in All of a sudden the lights went out . In Shakespeare's day the common phrase was of a sudden , the word all being added in the late 1600s. Also see all at once , def. 2.
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"Sometimes there is constructive cooperation, and then, all of a sudden, some kind of crisis appears."

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If shoppers return to pandemic-era stockpiling, then all of a sudden everyone is going to run to the store to grab the same thing, creating shortages.

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Rick sees her — because words are her armor — and all of a sudden that’s all gone.

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"There's a few where the route will just stop all of a sudden, or will change direction."

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"People are blaming them for everything. Anything that gets nicked or any can thrown out of a car into the hedge rows, all of a sudden it is 'because of asylum seekers'."

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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