Phrase info Synonyms

from nowhere

Speech parts

1. from nowhere - Adverb

2. from nowhere - Phrase

Meaning

without warning

Source: WordNet

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Examples

Dostoyevsky is ahead of his time - a few daring steps. You follow him, dizzying, fearful, incredulous; but you follow. He won't let loose, you have to follow. ... You simply have to call him unique. He comes from nowhere and belongs nowhere. And yet he is always a Russian. Joseph Goebbels

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. Ambrose Bierce

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. F. Scott Fitzgerald

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere. Ian Hunter

There must always be somebody. However young or insignificant. There has to be somebody who comes from nowhere to say what others are too foolish or too frightened to say. Anthony Burgess

But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other. Beck

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