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out of the clear sky

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sky

  [skahy] noun, plural skies, verb skied or skyed, sky⋅ing.
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–noun Often, skies (for defs. 1–4).
1. the region of the clouds or the upper air; the upper atmosphere of the earth: airplanes in the sky; cloudy skies.
2. the heavens or firmament, appearing as a great arch or vault.
3. the supernal or celestial heaven: They looked to the sky for help.
4. the climate: the sunny skies of Italy.
5. Obsolete. a cloud.
–verb (used with object)
6. Informal. to raise, throw, or hit aloft or into the air.
7. Informal. to hang (a painting) high on a wall, above the line of vision.
—Verb phrase
8. sky up, Falconry. (of prey, when flushed) to fly straight upward.
—Idioms
9. out of a or the clear sky, without advance notice or warning; abruptly: An old beau phoned her out of a clear sky. Also, out of a or the clear blue sky.
10. to the skies, with lavishness or enthusiasm; extravagantly: to praise someone to the skies. Also, to the sky.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME < ON skȳ cloud, c. OE scēo cloud

Related forms:
skyless, adjective
skylike, adjective
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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Slang Dictionary
sky

  1. in.
    to travel (to somewhere) in an airplane. : I decided to sky down to Orlando for the weekend.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

sky 
c.1220, "a cloud," from O.N. sky "cloud," from P.Gmc. *skeujam "cloud, cloud cover" (cf. O.E. sceo, O.S. scio "cloud;" O.H.G. scuwo, O.E. scua, O.N. skuggi "shadow;" Goth. skuggwa "mirror"), from PIE base *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see hide (n.1)). Meaning "upper regions of the air" is attested from c.1300; replaced native heofon in this sense (see heaven). In M.E., the word can still mean both "cloud" and "heaven," as still in the skies, originally "the clouds." Sky-high is from 1818; phrase the sky's the limit is attested from 1920. Sky-dive first recorded 1965; sky-writing is from 1923.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Science Dictionary
sky   (skī)  Pronunciation Key 
The atmosphere, as seen from a given point on the Earth's surface. The sky appears to be blue because the wavelengths associated with blue light are scattered more easily than those that are associated with the other colors.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Copyright © 2002. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.
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