from nowhere
Speech parts
1. from nowhere - Adverb
2. from nowhere - Phrase
Meaning
without warning
Source: WordNetSynonyms
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.
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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.
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.